User HTML Helper to populate a DropDown list

Question

I'm trying to populate a dropdown list with a list returned by a query to my object's facade. I've seen a couple examples here but nothing close enough to my use case. Seems like:

<%= Html.DropDownList("User.Affiliate", UserFacade.Instance.SelectAffiliates())%>

should work but doesn't.

Nope...it's an IList. So I'd need to learn how to convert an IList to a SelectList, yes? — justSteve, Nov 04 '09 at 23:00
Yeah a select list is the prefered approach within mvc pages. — griegs, Nov 05 '09 at 01:31

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 05 '09 at 06:06

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Try using

<%= Html.DropDownList("User.Affiliate", 
    new SelectList(UserFacade.Instance.SelectAffiliates()))%>

answered Nov 05 '09 at 06:06

Alexander Prokofyev

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User HTML Helper to populate a DropDown list

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