How to bind DataTable to @Html.DropDownListFor in asp.net MVC3

Question

I have a DataTable which looks like below:

TOTAL_CODE COD_NAME AP0001 School AP0002 Hospital AP0003 Airport A

Answer 1

this is one way to do it.

Edit:

 //you can take this as a Sex Model
            public class Sex {
                public string gender { get; set; }
                public string shortname { get; set; }
            }
            public List SexList() {
                //if you have your sex model in the database , you can get it here

                //I have a static content below, just to show you how you can manuplate the sex model,
                List s = new List() { new Sex() { gender = "Male", shortname = "M" }, new Sex() { gender = "Female", shortname = "F" } };

                List items = new List();
                //go through the sex model and populate you selectlist items
                foreach (Sex sex in s) {
                    SelectListItem item = new SelectListItem();
                    item.Text =sex.gender;
                    item.Value =sex.shortname;
                    items.Add(item);
                }
                return items;
            }

On your controller

[HttpGet]
public ActionResult DetailAdd()
{
    Profile profile = new Profile();
    //set the sex types
    profile.SexList=SexList();

    return View(profile);
}

on your view

@model Kery.Models.Profile
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "DetailAdd";
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}

Please select your sex type: @Html.DropDownListFor("name",Model.SexList)