IDictionary to SelectList ?

Question

I have an IDictionary, now I want to use these values in a selectlist. How do I do this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Well, IDictionary inherits from IEnumerable so you ought to be able to pass that dictionary to one of the constructors for SelectList.

Answer 2

Just set the Value and Key for dataValueField and dataTextField. You can either do this in your View itself or from your action (havent tested the code below).

var targets = new Dictionary<string, string>();
targets.Add("Blank", "_blank");
targets.Add("Parent", "_parent");
targets.Add("Self", "_self");
targets.Add("Top", "_top");

ViewData["MyList"] = new SelectList(targets, "Key", "Value");