Question

I have to bind an Html.DropDownList with just two items statically.

Text="Yes" Value="1"
Text="No"  Value="0"

The important thing is that, I have to set the text and value fields.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

It is a best practice not to create the SelectList in the view. You should create it in the controller and pass it using the ViewData.

Example:

var list = new SelectList(new [] 
{
    new { ID = "1", Name = "name1" },
    new { ID = "2", Name = "name2" },
    new { ID = "3", Name = "name3" },
}, 
"ID", "Name", 1);

ViewData["list"]=list;
return View();

you pass to the constratctor: the IEnumerable objec,the value field the text field and the selected value.

in the View:

<%=Html.DropDownList("list",ViewData["list"] as SelectList) %>