Question

I have two model class in MVC3 one for Services which have those properties

public int ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Description { get; set; }
public string Image { get; set; }
public int ChildOf { get; set; }

It also have a DB table by Entityframework

Another model is Quata which have those properties

public int ID { get; set; }
public string Sender_Name { get; set; }
public string Description { get; set; }
.....
......
public Services Service_ID { get; set; }

It also have a DB table by Entityframework

I want to create a Razor(C#) view (for Quata) where user can send a quata by fill a html form but where i wanna show a dropdown list with Services ID as dropdown value and Services Name as dropdown text which is also come dynamically from the Services DB table .

My question is how i should create that dynamic dropdown list by @Html.DropDownListFor ? and send the selected data from that dropdown list to a Controller ?

Answer 1

Try this

Controller:

 public ActionResult Create()
    {
        var Services = new Services();

        Services.Load(); //load services..

        ViewBag.ID = new SelectList(Services.ToList(), "Id", "Name");


        return View();
    }

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(Quata Quata)
    {
        //save the data 
    }

A strong Typed View: (Using Razor)

@model Quata

@using (Html.BeginForm()) {
<fieldset>
    <legend>Quata</legend>

    <div>
        @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Service_ID.ID, "Service")
    </div>
    <div>
        @Html.DropDownList("ID", String.Empty)
    </div>


    <p>
        <input type="submit" value="Create" />
    </p>
</fieldset>
}