Question

I have this code that:

When you edit the UserProfile (with the corresponding CRUD (Controlers + Views)) you’ll see a dropdown for the SexType (that you can also edit with some other CRUD) and will correspond to a SexType table.

public class UserProfile{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Surname { get; set; }
public int SexTypeId { get; set; }
public virtual SexType SexType { get; set; }

public class SexType
{
    public int SexTypeId { get; set; }
    public string SexTypeDescription { get; set; }
    public virtual ICollection<UserProfile> UserProfiles { get; set; }
}

 public class UserProfileDBContext : DbContext //This creates the database according to the model
{
    public DbSet<UserProfile> UserProfiles { get; set; }
    public DbSet<SexType> SexType { get; set; }
}

What I want:
I want a simpler thing but I can’t manage to do it:

I want the sextype to be hardcoded (male / female) on my model (or in the controller).
Not in a database.
I don’t want any database but just visualize a dropdown with the “male/female” option every time I create or update records on “UserProfile”.

Can you help me with that?

Answer 1

You can do this in your view:

@Html.DropDownList("SexType", 
    new[] { 
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Male", Value = "M" },  
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Female", Value = "F" }
    }
);