Drop Down List in MVC3 or MVC4 Or Binding Dropdown List MVC3

Drop Down List in Asp.Net MVC3 or MVC4

Hi Developers,

I going to show the Dropdown List MVC3. How To bind and show the list in a view.

Model Property :

public string Empdomian { get; set; }

 Employeee Controller :

Here I’m creating a list of items to bind in drop down list and returning.

private List<SelectListItem> EmployeeDomainList()

        {

            var options = new List<SelectListItem>();

            options.Add(new SelectListItem { Value = "Programmer", Text = " Programmer" });

            options.Add(new SelectListItem { Value = "Designer", Text = " Designer " });

          options.Add(new SelectListItem { Value = "Tester", Text = " Tester " });

          options.Add(new SelectListItem { Value = "DBA", Text = " DBA " });

     options.Add(new SelectListItem { Value = "NetworkAdmin", Text = " NetworkAdmin " });

            return options;

        }

Suppose if want to create a some data regarding employee details. In Controller directly u can assign into a some ViewData or ViewBag or Session. so here I’m showing using ViewData how to bind into particular list of items.

In contoroller u can call the method and assign into a ViewDate like this :

ViewData["EmpList"] = new SelectList(EmployeeDomainList(), "Value", "Text");

So now I’m going to show the view how to retrieve the drop down list binding data.

View  :

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model. Empdomian, (IEnumerable<SelectListItem>)ViewData["EmpList "], "Select")

 Happy Coding,,,,,,

Jagan Mohan