Comments on: Rendering and Binding Drop Down Lists using ASP.NET MVC 2 EditorFor

By: David J Ledgett

David J Ledgett — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:17:14 +0000

Hi Nick,

Once again thanks for your help over the last few days. Much appreciated

Regards

Dave

By: David J Ledgett

David J Ledgett — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:59:51 +0000

Dear Nick,

Thanks very much for your most interesting article. This is very much appreciated although I must say that I am experiencing problems which in all likely hood is just a function of my stupidity.

If I were to zip up my project would you be as so kind as to have a quick look if and when you have the time. I am a relative “newbie” to MVC so you will be helping me to keep what little hair I have on my head intact.

Once again thank you for your time and for this post as I would certainly love to include this as part of my project

Yours Sincerely

David J Ledgett

By: Robby Gomillion

Robby Gomillion — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:48:20 +0000

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By: Gillou

Gillou — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:10:02 +0000

test

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:00:42 +0000

I considered using EditorFor.. but it's just simpler to use DropDownListFor, and this allows for tweaking at runtime and doesn't require recompilation. See example (where Model.ProductGroups is simply IEnumerable):


@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.Product.ProductGroup.Id, new SelectList(Model.ProductGroups, "Id", "Name"), "-- Select --")

By: Joel McColl

Joel McColl — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:46:49 +0000

The items must have the SelectListItem collection which the browser will not post. It will only include the value selected. It is quite all right because I just needed the selected item and not the whole collection.

I am not really interested in the selection list so what I did was to create a SelectionListItem with item selected.

IEnumerable items = new[] { new SelectListItem { Value = listItemValue, Text = “” , Selected = true } };

There you go. The value is passed back to the controller with the same type as you passed it to the form.

By: diaconu13

diaconu13 — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:38:48 +0000

Unfortunately this is not working if i do the Movie assignment on the controller before passing the model to the view.
If i make something like :
public ActionResult Index()
{
var bestPictureViewModel = new BestPictureViewModel();
bestPictureViewModel.Movies = new[] {
new SelectListItem() { Value = “1″, Text = “Slumdog Millionaire” },
new SelectListItem() { Value = “2″, Text = “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” },
new SelectListItem() { Value = “3″, Text = “Frost/Nixon” },
new SelectListItem() { Value = “4″, Text = “Milk” },
new SelectListItem() { Value = “5″, Text = “The Reader” },
};

return View(bestPictureViewModel);
}

Then I have items=null on line 22.
Do you have any Ideea how to fix this ?

Thank you.

By: CopFace

CopFace — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:49:57 +0000

I would like to know how to load data into the first combobox(Is covered by the above tutorial) and based on the data in first combobox, load some other data into a second combobox.

By: Patrice

Patrice — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:48:38 +0000

Well, this example is working fine if I do not use the Editfor to generate completly the form. In fact I try to understand why I can’t use a list EditorTemplate when the model properties associate with this dropdown is included in a model not only dedicated to this dropdown. In others words My dropdown is include in a forms where I want using Model.MyModel)%> to generate this form and the Model’s properties will have to be associate with a dropdown for one of them and normal textbox for the others

By: Andrew Lundgren

Andrew Lundgren — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:13:49 +0000

@Html.DropDownList

http://codeclimber.net.nz/archive/2009/08/10/how-to-create-a-dropdownlist-with-asp.net-mvc.aspx