Question

This is probably really simple… I am trying to create a SelectList containing years from the current one, back until 2008. This will always be the case. For example, in the year 2020, my SelectList will contain values from 2020 – 2008.

I set up this loop, but I’m not sure what the best place to go with this is

for (int i = currentYear; i != 2009; --i)
{

}

Is it possible to create a single SelectListItem and “add” it to a SelectList for each iteration?

I don’t think my statement above is possible, so my next thought was to create a list of years, then use LINQ to create it.

var selectList = ListOfYears.Select(new SelectListItem
{
    Value =
    Text = 
});

But then I’m not entirely sure how to get the value from the list.
Thanks

Answer 1

var selectList = 
    new SelectList(Enumerable.Range(2008, (DateTime.Now.Year - 2008) + 1));