DropDown box in ASP .Net MVC 3 Razor Entity Framework - asp.net

Question

i am new to ASP .NET and Particularly in ASP .Net MVC3 Razor...
i have created view for Clients and Executives in MVC3 Razor.
What i did is 1st i created Model called Clients.cs
namespace MVCInetClient.Model
{
[Table("tbl_Customer")]
public class Clients
{
[Required,Key,DatabaseGenerated(DatabaseGeneratedOption.None)]
[Display(Name = "Client ID")]
public int ClientId { get; set; }
[Required]
[Display(Name = "Client Name")]
public string ClientName { get; set; }
[Required]
[Display(Name = "Executive Name")]
public string ExecutiveName { get; set; }
[Required]
[Display(Name = "Contact Name")]
public string ContactPerson { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Address")]
public string Add1 { get; set; }
[Display(Name = " ")]
public string Add2 { get; set; }
[Display(Name = " ")]
public string Add3 { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Pincode")]
public string Pin { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "State")]
public string State { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Country")]
public string Country { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Phone")]
public string Phone { get; set; }
[Required]
[StringLength(10)]
[RegularExpression("\\d+")]
[Display(Name = "Mobile")]
public string Mobile { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Fax")]
public string Fax { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Email")]
public string Email { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Website")]
public string Web { get; set; }
}
public class ClientsDbContext : DbContext
{
public DbSet<Clients> Clients { get; set; }
public DbSet<Executives> Executives{ get; set; }
}
}
After that i Created the Controller called ClientsController with Scaffolding Options,
Template : Controller With Read/Write actions and Views, using Entity Framework
Model Class : Clients (MVCInetClient.Models)
Data Context Class : ClientsDbContext (MVCInetClient.Models)
It Created View Create, Edit, Index, Delete Automatically and its working Fine too.
Similarly i did for model called Executives.cs
namespace MVCInetClient.Models
{
[Table("tbl_Executive")]
public class Executives
{
[Required, Key, DatabaseGenerated(DatabaseGeneratedOption.None)]
[Display(Name = "Executive ID")]
public int ExecutiveId { get; set; }
[Required]
[Display(Name = "Executive Name")]
public string ExecutiveName { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Address")]
public string Add1 { get; set; }
[Display(Name = " ")]
public string Add2 { get; set; }
[Display(Name = " ")]
public string Add3 { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Pincode")]
public string Pin { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "State")]
public string State { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Country")]
public string Country { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Phone")]
public string Phone { get; set; }
[Required]
[StringLength(10)]
[RegularExpression("\\d+")]
[Display(Name = "Mobile")]
public string Mobile { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Email")]
public string Email { get; set; }
}
public class ExecutivesDbContext : DbContext
{
public DbSet<Executives> Executives { get; set; }
}
}
and this too Working Fine in all views(create, edit, delete)
What i need is, i need a Dropdown list of Executive name in Clients View instead of editor Field.
i looked some tutorials but i am confused...
Please help me to solve it...

Answer 1

Seems like you are using EF Code First with MVC.
The simplest answer is that you need to a List of Executives, pass the list in a model back to your View, create a select list, and render a drop down list.
public ActionResult Execx()
{
Model Model = new Model();
Model.execList = dbcontext.Executives;
return View(Model);
}
In your View:
#Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.execId, new SelectList(Model.execList, "ExecutiveId", "ExecutiveName "))
This is untested code. I slapped the pieces together to give you the idea.