Question

I am trying to populate a dropdownlist of office locations(text) and addresses (value) When viewing my page source in my browser after displaying the page I can see that the select (dropdownlist) option values are all ”. Here is my code. I am using a LinqToSql data context call to get my data for the SelectList. In the debugger I can see that the list returned from my call does in fact have the addresses and office locations I need. My model datacontext code:

public partial class uls_dbDataContext {     public List<office_location> GetOfficeLocations()     {         return office_locations.ToList();     } } 

My controller code:

    public ActionResult Directions()     {         uls_dbDataContext ulsdb_dc = new uls_dbDataContext();          ViewData['OfficeLocations'] = new SelectList(ulsdb_dc.GetOfficeLocations(),'location_address', 'location_name');          ViewData['Title'] = 'Directions';          return View();     } 

My view code: <%= Html.DropDownList(‘locations’, (SelectList)ViewData[‘OfficeLocations’])%>

Answer 1

I had to upgrade to MVC RC2 from preview 4. It addressed drodownlist issues and fixed my problem.