Dynammic DropDown List in MVC

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please i need your help, i am very new to MVC and i am trying to make a CreateEmployee form in MVC. for now, all i am trying to achieve is to add the poulated dropdownlist for Departments to the form. the dropdownlist is populated from a database , and using visual studio, i connected to the db and it created all the code file for the table . This is what the Createform should look like. The form below is created using Angular js.

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here is my Createform model.

C#

public class CreateEmployee
   {
       public int Id { get; set; }
       public string FullName { get; set; }
       [Required]
       public string Notes { get; set; }

      //add the dropdown list of departments here,i not sure on what to do here
      //do i create an instance of dbcontext here or AngtestDepartment


       public bool PerkCar { get; set; }
       public bool PerkStock { get; set; }
       public bool PerkSixWeeks { get; set; }
       public string PayrollType { get; set; }
   }

    public ActionResult CreateEmployee()
    {


      return View();
    }

Here are the table codes that visual studio generated

Department Table

C#

public partial class AngTestDepartment
{
    public int id { get; set; }
    public string Department { get; set; }
}

and the Department Table context

C#

 using System;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure;

public partial class DepartmentDbContext : DbContext
{
    public DepartmentDbContext()
        : base("name=DepartmentDbContext")
    {
    }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        throw new UnintentionalCodeFirstException();
    }

    public virtual DbSet<AngTestDepartment> AngTestDepartments { get; set; }

    public System.Data.Entity.DbSet<AngularForms2.Models.CreateEmployee> CreateEmployees { get; set; }
}

Thank you very much for your help, i appreciate it

Posted 5-Jan-15 4:44am

rudolph098

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rudolph098 · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-05T05:33:00

add the following to the model.

C#

public int Department { get; set; }
public IEnumerable<angtestdepartment> Departments { get; set; }</angtestdepartment>

add the following to the controller

C#

public ActionResult CreateEmployee() 
{
    using (var db = new DepartmentDbContext())
    {
        var model = new CreateEmployee();
        model.Departments = db.AngTestDepartments.ToList();
        return View(model);
    }
}

add the following to the view

C#

@Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.Department,
     Model.Departments.Select(d => new SelectListItem()
                                       {
                                           Value = d.id.ToString(),
                                           Text = d.Department 
                                       }))

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