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shanish
shanish

Reputation: 1984

Drop down list inside of HTML table List in MVC

I am a newbie to MVC, I have some problem to populate a dropdown inside of a html table. I have my classes like

Public Class Employee
{
    public int EmployeeId {get; set;}
    public string EmployeeName {get; set;}
    public string Country {get; set;}

    public Employee() {}
    public Employee(Employees emp)
    {
        this.EmployeeId=emp.EmployeeId;
        this.EmployeeName=emp.EmployeeName;
        this.Country=emp.Country;
    }
}

Public Class Employees : List<Employee>
{
    Public Employees()
    {
        MyEntities entities=new MyEntities();

        foreach(Employees emp in entities.Employees)
        {
            this.Add(new Employee(emp));
        }
    }
}

In the same way I have Country and Countries classes also which is having CountryId and CountryName. I am binding list of Employees in my View from the controller like,

public ActionResult Index()
{
    Employees emp = new Employees();
    return View(emp);
}

this is showing me the employees data from my db. In the last row of my table I have manually added a row for Adding a new employee, by entering the EmployeeName and selecting Country from a dropdownlist.

The problem is here in the dropdown. I have already displayed a list of employees in my view. Is it possible to one more list of Countries in my dropdown. And also I need to bind the selected country to the employee.country property.

I am much more comfortable with webforms, but in MVC I dont know how to achieve this. Can anyone help me out here. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2014

Answers (2)

Praveen S
Praveen S

Reputation: 650

Try This one.....

View

@Html.DropDownList("Cert", (SelectList)ViewData["Countries"], "--Select--", new { @class="dropdownlist" ,id = "Country" })

Models

 public string Certification{ get; set; }

Controller

 var Country = new SelectList(new[]
            {
                new {ID="1",Name="India"},
                new{ID="2",Name="Nepal"},
                new{ID="3",Name="Srilanka"},...etc
            });
            ViewData["Countries"] = Country ;

Upvotes: 1

Alexei Levenkov
Alexei Levenkov

Reputation: 100620

Instead of just Employees pass model that contain both collections:

  class IndexViewModel
  {
    public IEnumerable<Employee> Employees {get;set;}
    public IEnymerable<Conuntry> Countries {get;set;}
  }

Than construct and pass it to view

  return View(new IndexViewModel { 
     Employees = employeeRepository.GetAll(),
     Countries = GetAllCountries()
  }

Than render countries dropdown using Model.Countries

Upvotes: 1

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