Archive for January, 2014

Magic @Html.DropDownList

This is observed in MVC5

When one of properties of model is associated with another list, it is normal practice that  list is saved in the ViewData as a SelectList , then in the View, the same list is retrieved back and passed to the html helper @Html.DropDownList(modelpropertyname,the SelectList)

What puzzled me is the second parameter, the SelectList could be ignored or even is attempted to be retrieved in a wrong way,  the List could still be loaded correctly. Read the rest of this entry »

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