Question

I have a viewModel class ‘SomeDataViewMode’ that class have ‘List Schools’ object that is filled with ‘School’ objects. School obejct has properties SchoolID and Name.
In my view (Razor) I added:

@Html.DropDownListFor(c => c.ScoolId, new SelectList(Model.Schools), "Select some school")

But all I got is drop down list with:

MyProject.Domain.Entities.School

How to get values?

Answer 1

You should either add a ToString() method to the School class, or use LINQ to create SelectListItems with Texts and Values:

new SelectList(Model.Schools.Select(s => new SelectListItem { Text = s.Name, Value = s.SchoolId }))

EDIT: Your code is needlessly complex.
You can write

@Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.Schools, new SelectList(list, "SchoolId", "Name"))