ASP.NET MVC - Help needed to Improve the code for mvc's Drop-Down Box?

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16 Jan 2013CPOL

Create a class DropdownList where T is the entity which contain the property for value and text and method like belowpublic static class DropDownList { public static SelectList LoadItems(IList collection, string value, string text) { return new...

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1. ASP.NET MVC - Help needed to Improve the code for mvc's Drop-Down Box?

16 Jan 2013Sheikh Muhammad Haris

Hi,Try the following code [HttpGet]public ActionResult Index(){ ViewBag.CitiesDropDown = GetCityList(); return View();}private List GetCityList(){ //Here you can access DB to get your required data. Just make sure the return type ...

2. ASP.NET MVC - Help needed to Improve the code for mvc's Drop-Down Box?

16 Jan 2013devdev13

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I have created the below drop-down to populate a list of cities.All works fine, but I would like to know the better ways of doing this please. Also, please let me know if it is possible to create the same drop down using instead of HTML helpers.Below are my DTO classes. Please...

3. ASP.NET MVC - Help needed to Improve the code for mvc's Drop-Down Box?

16 Jan 2013Zoltán Zörgő

You have several ways to do this. You don't even need to use ViewBag. Please look at my recent article: Dynamic tabular input with unobstructive validation in ASP.NET MVC3[^] (:)). It covers this scenario also.SelectListItem is useful if you generate your element on the fly, Selected has to...