In this blog, I will demonstrate how to create a EnumDropDownList in MVC 5 razor view, which is a valuable replacement of DropDownList. In earlier version of MVC framework Enum was not supported in View.

Create a Model with Enum type

First of all we will create a Model which will have enum property. Here is a sample EnumTest Model
  1. Namespace Blog{
  3. public class EnumTest
  4. {
  5. public int BlogId {get;set;}
  6. public string BlogName {get;set;}
  7. public Roles UserRole {get;set;}
  8. }
  9. public enum Roles
  10. {
  11. Admin,
  12. Moderator,
  13. Contributor
  14. }
  15. }

Now will create a Controller

Here is a simple controller with Index Action
  1. public class Blog : Controller
  2. {
  3. public ActionResult Index()
  4. {
  5. return View();
  6. }
  7. [HttpPost]
  8. public ActionResult Index(EnumTest model)
  9. {
  10. return View();
  11. }
  12. }
Razor view
Now we will use Roles in view using html helper @Html.EnumDropDownListFor
  1. @model Blog.EnumTest
  2. <div >
  3. @Html.TextBoxFor(model=>model.BlogName) </br>
  4. @Html.EnumDropDownListFor(model => model.Role) </br>
  6. </div>
.....................and we are done.
Its no need to work with SelectList anymore, and it's quite simple to work with DropDownList with enums.
I have found many questions on C-sharpcorner and other communities on DropDownList. With MVC 5 I hope will not see any more queries on it.