How to get data to Dropdownlist from database in html view

Question

I am creating an web page in which have a Dropdownlist. I have to retrieve data for the drop_down_list from the database. Is there any way to get data from the data

Answer 1

It is just a simple two step process:

Step1 :Action method code

public ActionResult Index()  
{
  ViewBag.users = db.users.ToList();
}

Step2: cshtml code

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.someId, new SelectList(ViewBag.users, "userId", "userName"), "Select users")

Note: with this, you can bind n number of data from the database to dropdownlist

Hope it was useful

Thanks

Karthik