Question

I am trying to convert my Items from Enum to a dropdownlist .Please help

public enum Colors{ red,blue,green,yellow,orange,white,black,Teal,Custom }


 @Html.DropDownList("SelectedColourId", Model.ColourList, "(Select one Color)")

My ViewModel is below

  myPageViewModel:BasicViewModel
    {
 .....
     public IEnumerable<SelectListItem> ColourList{ get; set; }
.........
    }

I am tried something like

myViewModel.ColourList = Enum.GetNames(typeof(Colors)).ToArray()
                .Select(e => new SelectListItem() { Text = e.item, Value = e.itemindex });

But I don’t know how to get itemText and its correesponding Index .Its throwing errors

Answer 1

In the controller, initialize the ColourList array using the Enum GetNames static method and Linq:

myPageViewModel.ColourList = Enum.GetNames(typeof(Colors))
    .Select(c => new SelectListItem() { Text = c, Value = c })
    .ToArray();