Why does this render as a list of "System.Web.Mvc.SelectListItem"s?
- by JMT
I'm trying to populate a DropDownList with values pulled from a property, and my end result right now is a list of nothing but "System.Web.Mvc.SelectListItem"s. I'm sure there's some minor step I'm omitting here, but for the life of me I can't figure out what it is.
The property GET generating the list:
public IEnumerable<SelectListItem> AllFoo {
get {
var foo = from g in Bar
orderby g.name
select new SelectListItem {
Value = g.fooid.ToString(),
Text = g.name
};
return foo.AsEnumerable();
}
}
The controller code:
public ActionResult Edit(string id) {
// n/a code
ViewData["fooList"] = new SelectList(g.AllFoo, g.fooid);
return View(model);
}
The view code:
<%= Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.fooid, ViewData["fooList"] as SelectList) %>
