Get DropDownListFor to display name of each model object

Question

How do I get a DropDownListFor helper to properly display all of the items of a model that a collection has?

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.Request.Leave_ID, new SelectList(Model.Leaves))

I tried modifying this part of code in many different ways but I'm not too good with Linq so I either got something like System.Data.Entity.DynamicProxies... etc returned or something else that is weird.

Basically my model has a colleciont of a Leave model which contains a Name property so I would like to make it possible so that the dropdown list will display the names of all of the Leaves.

possible duplicate of [How to write a simple Html.DropDownListFor()?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3057873/how-to-write-a-simple-html-dropdownlistfor) — Sergey Litvinov, Jan 22 '14 at 10:57
Well I'm mostly interested in seeing if there is a Linq query which would make this happen — ab1428x, Jan 22 '14 at 11:02
Linq query is for data. and you already have Leaves in your model. Why do you need Linq query here? — Sergey Litvinov, Jan 22 '14 at 11:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 22 '14 at 10:59

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Add dataValueField and textValueField parameters to the constructor of the SelectList:

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.Request.Leave_ID, new SelectList(Model.Leaves, "Name", "Name")))

answered Jan 22 '14 at 10:59

Håkan Fahlstedt

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@Andrew: If this answer helped you resolving your issue, then you should mark it as answer. – Nitin Joshi Jan 22 '14 at 11:10
@NitinJoshi I wanted to but it made me wait 2 minutes and then I forgot – ab1428x Jan 22 '14 at 14:28

Get DropDownListFor to display name of each model object

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