Need a little help in here.
I want to create a drop down list and be able to display all the different values of a single row (in this case, a dropdown list containing emails); i am reading directly from a SQL SERVER table:
I created a Model cs file called DropDownList and it contains:
public class Email{
public string Email { get; set}
}
I did this function in order to get all the values stored in that table:
public IEnumerable<Emails> GetEmailList()
{
var emailList = new List<Emails>();
using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
{
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("GetEmailValues", con);
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
con.Open();
SqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
while (dr.Read())
{
var listEmail = new Emails();
listEmail.Email = dr["Email"].ToString();
emailList.Add(listEmail);
}
con.Close();
}
return emailList;
}
This is my controller file:
public ActionResult Index()
{
List<Emails> emailList = dbContext.GetEmailList().ToList();
return View(emailList);
}
This is my HTML file:
@model Application.Models
@{
ViewData["Title"] = "Edit";
}
<h1>EDIT</h1>
<h4>Edit</h4>
<hr />
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<form asp-action="Edit">
<div class="form-group">
<label asp-for="Email" class="control-label"></label>
<input asp-for="Email" class="form-control" />
<span asp-validation-for="Email" class="text-danger"></span>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="submit" value="Save" class="btn btn-primary" />
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
I do not understand what should i do in order to get that DROPDOWNLIST, been reading different things but no one really helped me. Can help me?
EDIT:
I would like to obtain something like this:
You can use asp-items
taghelper:
public ActionResult Edit()
{
ViewData["Email1"] = new SelectList(dbContext.GetEmailList().ToList(), "Email", "Email");
ViewData["Email2"] = new SelectList(//your selected list ,"Email", "Email");
return View();
}
[HttpPost]
public IActionResult Edit(string email1,string email2)
{
//your code.
return View();
}
Edit View:
@model DropDownList
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<form asp-action="Edit">
<div class="form-group">
<select name="email1" asp-items="ViewBag.Email1"></select>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<select name="email2" asp-items="ViewBag.Email2"></select>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>