IDictionary to SelectList ?

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

Thanks.

From stackoverflow

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

  Meta-Knight : You should pass the Values property instead of just the IDictionary though. If you just pass the IDictionary you will get key/value pairs instead of the values.

  Andrew Hare : Please post the code you are using so that we can use that to test.

• 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");
  

  Tony Borf : Got it, Thanks for the help.