Concatenate two fields in select list (C#)

Question

I use a viewbag to create a select list and I want to Show two fields concatenated together. However, it is crashing on my view. Here is the viewbag code:

ViewBag.PackageId = new SelectList(db.Packages.Where(p => p.status == "A"), "u_package_id", "u_package_id" + "'-'" + "package_nme");

Answer 1

This should work

ViewBag.PackageId = db.Packages.Where(p => p.status == "A")
    .Select(p => new SelectListItem
    {
        Text = p.u_package_id + "-" + p.package_nme,
        Value = p.u_package_id
    };