Convert Enum to SelectList

• Posted by miketeye on October 8, 2011
• 0 comments

Simple extension method to convert enumeration to a selectList for use with MVC DropDownList.

       
        public static SelectList ToSelectList(this Enum enumeration)
        {
            var list = (from Enum d in Enum.GetValues(enumeration.GetType())
                        select new { ID = (int)Enum.Parse(enumeration.GetType(),    Enum.GetName(enumeration.GetType(), d)), Name = d.ToString() }).ToList();
            return new SelectList(list, "ID", "Name");
        }

Say you have an enumeration depicted in the code below:

 
 public enum Options
 {
    option1= 1,
    option2= 2,
    option3=3
 }     

You will use the above extension in this way:

 
 SelectList Selections;
 Options opts = new Options();
 Selections = opts.ToSelectList();

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