Okay i'm new to asp mvc2 and i'm experiencing some problems with the
htmlhelper called Html.dropdownlistfor();
I want to present the user a list of days in the week. And i want the selected item to be bound to my model.
I have created this little class to generate a list of days + a short notation which i will use to store it in the database.
public static class days
{
public static List<Day> getDayList()
{
List<Day> daylist = new List<Day>();
daylist.Add(new Day("Monday", "MO"));
daylist.Add(new Day("Tuesday", "TU"));
// I left the other days out
return daylist;
}
public class Dag{
public string DayName{ get; set; }
public string DayShortName { get; set; }
public Dag(string name, string shortname)
{
this.DayName= name;
this.DayShortName = shortname;
}
}
}
I really have now idea if this is the correct way to do it
Then i putted this in my controller:
SelectList _list = new SelectList(Days.getDayList(), "DayShortName", "DayName");
ViewData["days"] = _list;
return View("");
I have this line in my model
public string ChosenDay { get; set; }
And this in my view to display the list:
<div class="editor-field">
<%: Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.ChosenDay, ViewData["days"] as SelectList, "--choose Day--")%>
</div>
Now this all works perfect. On the first visit, But then when i'm doing a [HttpPost]
Which looks like the following:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Registreer(EventRegistreerViewModel model)
{
// I removed some unrelated code here
// The code below executes when modelstate.isvalid == false
SelectList _list = new SelectList(Days.getDayList(), "DayShortName", "DayName");
ViewData["days"] = _list;
return View(model);
}
Then i will have the following exception thrown:
The ViewData item that has the key 'ChosenDay' is of type 'System.String' but must be of type 'IEnumerable<SelectListItem>'.
This errors gets thrown at the line in my view where i display the dropdown list.
I really have no idea how to solve this and tried several solutions i found online. but none of them really worked.
Ty in advance!
I have seen such an error.
This is becouse ViewData["days"] as SelectList is null when the view is rendered. This can be becouse of ViewData["days"] is null or in different type then SelectList.
The problem must be found here:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Registreer(EventRegistreerViewModel model)
{
}
Make shure, that this code
SelectList _list = new SelectList(Days.getDayList(), "DayShortName", "DayName");
ViewData["days"] = _list;
runs and that ViewData["days"] not null and IEnumerable before you return View. It must be becouse of Model.IsValid so ViewData["days"] not binded.
The HttpPost controller action will call the model constructor when it sees "EventRegistreerViewModel model".
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Registreer(EventRegistreerViewModel model)
So if you add code to your EventRegistreerViewModel model like this:
...
public IEnumerable<string> MySelectList { get; set; }
public EventRegistreerViewModel() {
// build the select the list as selectList, then
this.MySelectList = selectList;
}
Then in your view use this code to display the list and the selected item:
Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.ChosenDay, model.MySelectList, "--choose Day--")
This way every time the view model is constructed it will include the select list
Related
I have the following view model
public class ProjectVM
{
....
[Display(Name = "Category")]
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Please select a category")]
public int CategoryID { get; set; }
public IEnumerable<SelectListItem> CategoryList { get; set; }
....
}
and the following controller method to create a new Project and assign a Category
public ActionResult Create()
{
ProjectVM model = new ProjectVM
{
CategoryList = new SelectList(db.Categories, "ID", "Name")
}
return View(model);
}
public ActionResult Create(ProjectVM model)
{
if (!ModelState.IsValid)
{
return View(model);
}
// Save and redirect
}
and in the view
#model ProjectVM
....
#using (Html.BeginForm())
{
....
#Html.LabelFor(m => m.CategoryID)
#Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.CategoryID, Model.CategoryList, "-Please select-")
#Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.CategoryID)
....
<input type="submit" value="Create" />
}
The view displays correctly but when submitting the form, I get the following error message
InvalidOperationException: The ViewData item that has the key 'CategoryID' is of type 'System.Int32' but must be of type 'IEnumerable<SelectListItem>'.
The same error occurs using the #Html.DropDownList() method, and if I pass the SelectList using a ViewBag or ViewData.
The error means that the value of CategoryList is null (and as a result the DropDownListFor() method expects that the first parameter is of type IEnumerable<SelectListItem>).
You are not generating an input for each property of each SelectListItem in CategoryList (and nor should you) so no values for the SelectList are posted to the controller method, and therefore the value of model.CategoryList in the POST method is null. If you return the view, you must first reassign the value of CategoryList, just as you did in the GET method.
public ActionResult Create(ProjectVM model)
{
if (!ModelState.IsValid)
{
model.CategoryList = new SelectList(db.Categories, "ID", "Name"); // add this
return View(model);
}
// Save and redirect
}
To explain the inner workings (the source code can be seen here)
Each overload of DropDownList() and DropDownListFor() eventually calls the following method
private static MvcHtmlString SelectInternal(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, ModelMetadata metadata,
string optionLabel, string name, IEnumerable<SelectListItem> selectList, bool allowMultiple,
IDictionary<string, object> htmlAttributes)
which checks if the selectList (the second parameter of #Html.DropDownListFor()) is null
// If we got a null selectList, try to use ViewData to get the list of items.
if (selectList == null)
{
selectList = htmlHelper.GetSelectData(name);
usedViewData = true;
}
which in turn calls
private static IEnumerable<SelectListItem> GetSelectData(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string name)
which evaluates the the first parameter of #Html.DropDownListFor() (in this case CategoryID)
....
o = htmlHelper.ViewData.Eval(name);
....
IEnumerable<SelectListItem> selectList = o as IEnumerable<SelectListItem>;
if (selectList == null)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException(String.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture,
MvcResources.HtmlHelper_WrongSelectDataType,
name, o.GetType().FullName, "IEnumerable<SelectListItem>"));
}
Because property CategoryID is typeof int, it cannot be cast to IEnumerable<SelectListItem> and the exception is thrown (which is defined in the MvcResources.resx file as)
<data name="HtmlHelper_WrongSelectDataType" xml:space="preserve">
<value>The ViewData item that has the key '{0}' is of type '{1}' but must be of type '{2}'.</value>
</data>
according to stephens (user3559349) answer, this can be useful:
#Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.CategoryID, Model.CategoryList ?? new List<SelectListItem>(), "-Please select-")
or in ProjectVM:
public class ProjectVM
{
public ProjectVM()
{
CategoryList = new List<SelectListItem>();
}
...
}
Most Likely Caused some sort of error redirecting to your page and you not initializing your model's drop down lists again.
Make sure that you initialize your drop downs in either the model's constructor or every time before you send said model to the page.
Otherwise you will need to maintain the state of the drop down lists either through the view bag or through the hidden value helpers.
OK, the poster's canned answer neatly explained why the error occurred, but not how to get it to work. I'm not sure that's really an answer, but it did point me in the right direction.
I ran into the same issue and found a slick way to resolve it. I'll try to capture that here. Disclaimer - I work on web pages once a year or so and really don't know what I'm doing most of the time. This answer should in no way be considered an "expert" answer, but it does the job with little work...
Given that I have some data object (most likely a Data Transfer Object) that I want to use a drop-down list to supply valid values for a field, like so:
public class MyDataObject
{
public int id;
public string StrValue;
}
Then the ViewModel looks like this:
public class MyDataObjectVM
{
public int id;
public string StrValue;
public List<SectListItem> strValues;
}
The real problem here, as #Stephen so eloquently described above, is the select list isn't populated on the POST method in the controller. So your controller methods would look like this:
// GET
public ActionResult Create()
{
var dataObjectVM = GetNewMyDataObjectVM();
return View(dataObjectVM); // I use T4MVC, don't you?
}
private MyDataObjectVM GetNewMyDataObjectVM(MyDataObjectVM model = null)
{
return new MyDataObjectVM
{
int id = model?.Id ?? 0,
string StrValue = model?.StrValue ?? "",
var strValues = new List<SelectListItem>
{
new SelectListItem {Text = "Select", Value = ""},
new SelectListITem {Text = "Item1", Value = "Item1"},
new SelectListItem {Text = "Item2", Value = "Item2"}
};
};
}
// POST
public ActionResult Create(FormCollection formValues)
{
var dataObject = new MyDataObject();
try
{
UpdateModel(dataObject, formValues);
AddObjectToObjectStore(dataObject);
return RedirectToAction(Actions.Index);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// fill in the drop-down list for the view model
var dataObjectVM = GetNewMyDataObjectVM();
ModelState.AddModelError("", ex.Message);
return View(dataObjectVM);
)
}
There you have it. This is NOT working code, I copy/pasted and edited to make it simple, but you get the idea. If the data members in both the original data model and the derived view model have the same name, UpdateModel() does an awesome job of filling in just the right data for you from the FormCollection values.
I'm posting this here so I can find the answer when I inevitably run into this issue again -- hopefully it will help someone else out as well.
I had the same problem, I was getting an invalid ModelState when I tried to post the form. For me, this was caused by setting CategoryId to int, when I changed it to string the ModelState was valid and the Create method worked as expected.
In my case the first ID in my list was zero, once I changed the ID to start from 1, it worked.
I have the following view model
public class ProjectVM
{
....
[Display(Name = "Category")]
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Please select a category")]
public int CategoryID { get; set; }
public IEnumerable<SelectListItem> CategoryList { get; set; }
....
}
and the following controller method to create a new Project and assign a Category
public ActionResult Create()
{
ProjectVM model = new ProjectVM
{
CategoryList = new SelectList(db.Categories, "ID", "Name")
}
return View(model);
}
public ActionResult Create(ProjectVM model)
{
if (!ModelState.IsValid)
{
return View(model);
}
// Save and redirect
}
and in the view
#model ProjectVM
....
#using (Html.BeginForm())
{
....
#Html.LabelFor(m => m.CategoryID)
#Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.CategoryID, Model.CategoryList, "-Please select-")
#Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.CategoryID)
....
<input type="submit" value="Create" />
}
The view displays correctly but when submitting the form, I get the following error message
InvalidOperationException: The ViewData item that has the key 'CategoryID' is of type 'System.Int32' but must be of type 'IEnumerable<SelectListItem>'.
The same error occurs using the #Html.DropDownList() method, and if I pass the SelectList using a ViewBag or ViewData.
The error means that the value of CategoryList is null (and as a result the DropDownListFor() method expects that the first parameter is of type IEnumerable<SelectListItem>).
You are not generating an input for each property of each SelectListItem in CategoryList (and nor should you) so no values for the SelectList are posted to the controller method, and therefore the value of model.CategoryList in the POST method is null. If you return the view, you must first reassign the value of CategoryList, just as you did in the GET method.
public ActionResult Create(ProjectVM model)
{
if (!ModelState.IsValid)
{
model.CategoryList = new SelectList(db.Categories, "ID", "Name"); // add this
return View(model);
}
// Save and redirect
}
To explain the inner workings (the source code can be seen here)
Each overload of DropDownList() and DropDownListFor() eventually calls the following method
private static MvcHtmlString SelectInternal(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, ModelMetadata metadata,
string optionLabel, string name, IEnumerable<SelectListItem> selectList, bool allowMultiple,
IDictionary<string, object> htmlAttributes)
which checks if the selectList (the second parameter of #Html.DropDownListFor()) is null
// If we got a null selectList, try to use ViewData to get the list of items.
if (selectList == null)
{
selectList = htmlHelper.GetSelectData(name);
usedViewData = true;
}
which in turn calls
private static IEnumerable<SelectListItem> GetSelectData(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string name)
which evaluates the the first parameter of #Html.DropDownListFor() (in this case CategoryID)
....
o = htmlHelper.ViewData.Eval(name);
....
IEnumerable<SelectListItem> selectList = o as IEnumerable<SelectListItem>;
if (selectList == null)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException(String.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture,
MvcResources.HtmlHelper_WrongSelectDataType,
name, o.GetType().FullName, "IEnumerable<SelectListItem>"));
}
Because property CategoryID is typeof int, it cannot be cast to IEnumerable<SelectListItem> and the exception is thrown (which is defined in the MvcResources.resx file as)
<data name="HtmlHelper_WrongSelectDataType" xml:space="preserve">
<value>The ViewData item that has the key '{0}' is of type '{1}' but must be of type '{2}'.</value>
</data>
according to stephens (user3559349) answer, this can be useful:
#Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.CategoryID, Model.CategoryList ?? new List<SelectListItem>(), "-Please select-")
or in ProjectVM:
public class ProjectVM
{
public ProjectVM()
{
CategoryList = new List<SelectListItem>();
}
...
}
Most Likely Caused some sort of error redirecting to your page and you not initializing your model's drop down lists again.
Make sure that you initialize your drop downs in either the model's constructor or every time before you send said model to the page.
Otherwise you will need to maintain the state of the drop down lists either through the view bag or through the hidden value helpers.
OK, the poster's canned answer neatly explained why the error occurred, but not how to get it to work. I'm not sure that's really an answer, but it did point me in the right direction.
I ran into the same issue and found a slick way to resolve it. I'll try to capture that here. Disclaimer - I work on web pages once a year or so and really don't know what I'm doing most of the time. This answer should in no way be considered an "expert" answer, but it does the job with little work...
Given that I have some data object (most likely a Data Transfer Object) that I want to use a drop-down list to supply valid values for a field, like so:
public class MyDataObject
{
public int id;
public string StrValue;
}
Then the ViewModel looks like this:
public class MyDataObjectVM
{
public int id;
public string StrValue;
public List<SectListItem> strValues;
}
The real problem here, as #Stephen so eloquently described above, is the select list isn't populated on the POST method in the controller. So your controller methods would look like this:
// GET
public ActionResult Create()
{
var dataObjectVM = GetNewMyDataObjectVM();
return View(dataObjectVM); // I use T4MVC, don't you?
}
private MyDataObjectVM GetNewMyDataObjectVM(MyDataObjectVM model = null)
{
return new MyDataObjectVM
{
int id = model?.Id ?? 0,
string StrValue = model?.StrValue ?? "",
var strValues = new List<SelectListItem>
{
new SelectListItem {Text = "Select", Value = ""},
new SelectListITem {Text = "Item1", Value = "Item1"},
new SelectListItem {Text = "Item2", Value = "Item2"}
};
};
}
// POST
public ActionResult Create(FormCollection formValues)
{
var dataObject = new MyDataObject();
try
{
UpdateModel(dataObject, formValues);
AddObjectToObjectStore(dataObject);
return RedirectToAction(Actions.Index);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// fill in the drop-down list for the view model
var dataObjectVM = GetNewMyDataObjectVM();
ModelState.AddModelError("", ex.Message);
return View(dataObjectVM);
)
}
There you have it. This is NOT working code, I copy/pasted and edited to make it simple, but you get the idea. If the data members in both the original data model and the derived view model have the same name, UpdateModel() does an awesome job of filling in just the right data for you from the FormCollection values.
I'm posting this here so I can find the answer when I inevitably run into this issue again -- hopefully it will help someone else out as well.
I had the same problem, I was getting an invalid ModelState when I tried to post the form. For me, this was caused by setting CategoryId to int, when I changed it to string the ModelState was valid and the Create method worked as expected.
In my case the first ID in my list was zero, once I changed the ID to start from 1, it worked.
I have the following view model
public class ProjectVM
{
....
[Display(Name = "Category")]
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Please select a category")]
public int CategoryID { get; set; }
public IEnumerable<SelectListItem> CategoryList { get; set; }
....
}
and the following controller method to create a new Project and assign a Category
public ActionResult Create()
{
ProjectVM model = new ProjectVM
{
CategoryList = new SelectList(db.Categories, "ID", "Name")
}
return View(model);
}
public ActionResult Create(ProjectVM model)
{
if (!ModelState.IsValid)
{
return View(model);
}
// Save and redirect
}
and in the view
#model ProjectVM
....
#using (Html.BeginForm())
{
....
#Html.LabelFor(m => m.CategoryID)
#Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.CategoryID, Model.CategoryList, "-Please select-")
#Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.CategoryID)
....
<input type="submit" value="Create" />
}
The view displays correctly but when submitting the form, I get the following error message
InvalidOperationException: The ViewData item that has the key 'CategoryID' is of type 'System.Int32' but must be of type 'IEnumerable<SelectListItem>'.
The same error occurs using the #Html.DropDownList() method, and if I pass the SelectList using a ViewBag or ViewData.
The error means that the value of CategoryList is null (and as a result the DropDownListFor() method expects that the first parameter is of type IEnumerable<SelectListItem>).
You are not generating an input for each property of each SelectListItem in CategoryList (and nor should you) so no values for the SelectList are posted to the controller method, and therefore the value of model.CategoryList in the POST method is null. If you return the view, you must first reassign the value of CategoryList, just as you did in the GET method.
public ActionResult Create(ProjectVM model)
{
if (!ModelState.IsValid)
{
model.CategoryList = new SelectList(db.Categories, "ID", "Name"); // add this
return View(model);
}
// Save and redirect
}
To explain the inner workings (the source code can be seen here)
Each overload of DropDownList() and DropDownListFor() eventually calls the following method
private static MvcHtmlString SelectInternal(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, ModelMetadata metadata,
string optionLabel, string name, IEnumerable<SelectListItem> selectList, bool allowMultiple,
IDictionary<string, object> htmlAttributes)
which checks if the selectList (the second parameter of #Html.DropDownListFor()) is null
// If we got a null selectList, try to use ViewData to get the list of items.
if (selectList == null)
{
selectList = htmlHelper.GetSelectData(name);
usedViewData = true;
}
which in turn calls
private static IEnumerable<SelectListItem> GetSelectData(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string name)
which evaluates the the first parameter of #Html.DropDownListFor() (in this case CategoryID)
....
o = htmlHelper.ViewData.Eval(name);
....
IEnumerable<SelectListItem> selectList = o as IEnumerable<SelectListItem>;
if (selectList == null)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException(String.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture,
MvcResources.HtmlHelper_WrongSelectDataType,
name, o.GetType().FullName, "IEnumerable<SelectListItem>"));
}
Because property CategoryID is typeof int, it cannot be cast to IEnumerable<SelectListItem> and the exception is thrown (which is defined in the MvcResources.resx file as)
<data name="HtmlHelper_WrongSelectDataType" xml:space="preserve">
<value>The ViewData item that has the key '{0}' is of type '{1}' but must be of type '{2}'.</value>
</data>
according to stephens (user3559349) answer, this can be useful:
#Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.CategoryID, Model.CategoryList ?? new List<SelectListItem>(), "-Please select-")
or in ProjectVM:
public class ProjectVM
{
public ProjectVM()
{
CategoryList = new List<SelectListItem>();
}
...
}
Most Likely Caused some sort of error redirecting to your page and you not initializing your model's drop down lists again.
Make sure that you initialize your drop downs in either the model's constructor or every time before you send said model to the page.
Otherwise you will need to maintain the state of the drop down lists either through the view bag or through the hidden value helpers.
OK, the poster's canned answer neatly explained why the error occurred, but not how to get it to work. I'm not sure that's really an answer, but it did point me in the right direction.
I ran into the same issue and found a slick way to resolve it. I'll try to capture that here. Disclaimer - I work on web pages once a year or so and really don't know what I'm doing most of the time. This answer should in no way be considered an "expert" answer, but it does the job with little work...
Given that I have some data object (most likely a Data Transfer Object) that I want to use a drop-down list to supply valid values for a field, like so:
public class MyDataObject
{
public int id;
public string StrValue;
}
Then the ViewModel looks like this:
public class MyDataObjectVM
{
public int id;
public string StrValue;
public List<SectListItem> strValues;
}
The real problem here, as #Stephen so eloquently described above, is the select list isn't populated on the POST method in the controller. So your controller methods would look like this:
// GET
public ActionResult Create()
{
var dataObjectVM = GetNewMyDataObjectVM();
return View(dataObjectVM); // I use T4MVC, don't you?
}
private MyDataObjectVM GetNewMyDataObjectVM(MyDataObjectVM model = null)
{
return new MyDataObjectVM
{
int id = model?.Id ?? 0,
string StrValue = model?.StrValue ?? "",
var strValues = new List<SelectListItem>
{
new SelectListItem {Text = "Select", Value = ""},
new SelectListITem {Text = "Item1", Value = "Item1"},
new SelectListItem {Text = "Item2", Value = "Item2"}
};
};
}
// POST
public ActionResult Create(FormCollection formValues)
{
var dataObject = new MyDataObject();
try
{
UpdateModel(dataObject, formValues);
AddObjectToObjectStore(dataObject);
return RedirectToAction(Actions.Index);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// fill in the drop-down list for the view model
var dataObjectVM = GetNewMyDataObjectVM();
ModelState.AddModelError("", ex.Message);
return View(dataObjectVM);
)
}
There you have it. This is NOT working code, I copy/pasted and edited to make it simple, but you get the idea. If the data members in both the original data model and the derived view model have the same name, UpdateModel() does an awesome job of filling in just the right data for you from the FormCollection values.
I'm posting this here so I can find the answer when I inevitably run into this issue again -- hopefully it will help someone else out as well.
I had the same problem, I was getting an invalid ModelState when I tried to post the form. For me, this was caused by setting CategoryId to int, when I changed it to string the ModelState was valid and the Create method worked as expected.
In my case the first ID in my list was zero, once I changed the ID to start from 1, it worked.
I'm working on a search criteria building page. In addition to several string and numerical type fields, there are several "multiple choice" options.
I'm using the [Get] signature without parameters(pass the CriteriaModel to the view) >> [Post] signature with CriteriaModel parameter (redirect to searching controller)
I've built lightweight option classes (just value, name pairs) and am populating several List<> with the primitive options.
Using Html.DropDownListFor, I'm able to get them to display.
...but...
When I enter the [Post] version, the List<>s are all set to null and empty. Further, the other criteria fields supposed to be populated afterwards are also default and empty.
Technically, I don't need a whole list of values back - if I could even just have the index of the selected value - but I'm up against a wall here.
Pertinent model data:
public class CriteriaModel
{
[DisplayName("Owner Name")]
public string OwnerName { get; set; }
[DisplayName("Subdivision")]
public List<Subdivision> Subdivision { get; set; }
[DisplayName("PIN")]
public string PIN { get; set; }
}
public class Subdivision
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}
Pertinent controller code:
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Index()
{
CriteriaModel criteria = new CriteriaModel();
...fill in the Subdivisions...
View(criteria);
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(CriteriaModel search_criteria)
{
return View("Search obtained" + search_criteria.Subdivision.First().Name);
}
And pertinent View markup:
#model REOModern.Models.CriteriaModel
...bunch of HTML...
#Html.LabelFor(model => model.Subdivision)
#Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.Subdivision, new SelectList(Model.Subdivision, "ID", "Name", Model.Subdivision.First().ID))
...other HTML...
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="Index">Search</button>
I should clarify: I know that my 'return View("Search obtained" + ...' will fail, but it should show the piece of data that I need. The problem is it's a null reference exception. Until I can fix that, there's no point in building a user-friendly View for submitted search criteria.
MVC does not repopulate the List<> elements.
You would split the selected value out into another property of the model.
So in your model, include something like this
public int SelectedValue { get; set; }
Then for your Html.DropDownListFor helper you would use
Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.SelectedValue, Model.DropDownList, new { /* htmlAttributes */ });
Of course they're empty. The only data that exists in your post action is that which was posted via the form. Since the entire dropdown list, itself, was not posted, merely a selected item(s), the lists are empty. For anything like this, you need to rerun the same logic in your post action to populate them as you did in your get action. It's usually better to factor out this logic into a private method on your controller that both actions can use:
private void PopulateSomeDropDownList(SomeModel model)
{
// logic here to construct dropdown list
model.SomeDropDownList = dropdownlist;
}
Then in your actions:
PopulateSomeDropDownList(model);
return View(model);
i want to show a dropdownList on a page using Entity Framework in my MVC app, but i am just stuck here to do this using using HTML Helper. so if anyone having knowledge of entity framework, help me...
my dataContext partial class is Entities, in which an entity named MemberInfo have some fields including MemberID & MemberName, so my dropdownList should show the field MemberName & behind this the value should be MemberID,
the code i tried yet--->
#Html.DropDownListFor(Model => Model.MemberID, MemberInfo)
in controller i am returning the Model--->
var MemberNameList = FinanceDBContext.MemberInfoes.Select(x => new { x.MemberID, x.Name });
return View(MemberNameList);
but its not working (errors).
You need to pass in all of your objects as the "model". Best practice is to use a ViewModel which will contain the list of data and a property to store the selected item.
ViewModel
public class MyViewModel
{
// The drop-down list and variable to get selection
public List<Member> Members { get; set; }
public int SelectedMemberId { get; set; }
}
Controller
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Index()
{
var viewModel = new MyViewModel();
viewModel.Members = FinanceDBContext.MemberInfoes.ToList();
return View(viewModel);
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(MyViewModel viewModel)
{
string debug = string.Format("You selected member: {0}", viewModel.SelectedMemberId);
return View(viewModel);
}
Finally, in your view (these lines need to be inside a BeginForm { ... } and ensure your View is strongly typed to MyViewModel
#Html.DropDownList("SelectedMemberId", new SelectList(Model.Members, "MemberID", "Name"))
<input type="submit" value="Save etc..." />
In this example you could put a break-point on the HttpPost action and check the debug string to check the correct Member is returned and proceed as required.