Problems with Country DropDownList

ojorge_santos · #1 (**permalink**) April 4th, 2011, 09:10 PM

The Edit form does not show the current country. It always shows the first. "USA"

I made the DinnerFormVieModel I went to Edit.aspx form and I made the following changes:

Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<NerdDinner.Model s.DinnerFormViewModel>" %>
. . .
. . .

<div class="editor-field">
<%: Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.Dinner.Country, Model.Countries) %>
<%: Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Dinner.Country, "*") %>
</div>

Somebody know where is the error?

flyinhawaiian · #2 (**permalink**) April 5th, 2011, 10:51 AM

My code looks like this:

Code:

<%: Html.LabelFor(m => m.Country) %>
<%: Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.Country, Model.Countries) %>                   
<%: Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Country, "*") %>

ojorge_santos · #3 (**permalink**) April 5th, 2011, 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flyinhawaiian

My code looks like this:

Code:

<%: Html.LabelFor(m => m.Country) %>
<%: Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.Country, Model.Countries) %>                   
<%: Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Country, "*") %>

Thank you flyinhawaiian, but when I change the code the aplication is not able to perform any update (Edit.aspx) it always shows the following message:
Please correct the erros and try again.

The "DropDown" is in red color. Si I went to Dinner partial class and commented the following line:

Code:

namespace NerdDinner.Models
{
    [MetadataType(typeof(Dinner_Validation))]
    public partial class Dinner
    {
        //...
    }
    public class Dinner_Validation
    {
        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Title is required")]
        [StringLength(50, ErrorMessage = "Title may not be longer than 50 characters")]
        public string Title { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Description is required")]
        [StringLength(265, ErrorMessage =
          "Description must be 256 characters or less")]
        public string Description { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Address is required")]
        public string Address { get; set; }

        //[Required(ErrorMessage = "Country is required")]
        public string Country { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Phone# is required")]
        public string ContactPhone { get; set; }
    }


}

When I run the application it shows the same error.

flyinhawaiian · #4 (**permalink**) April 5th, 2011, 02:58 PM

Perhaps there is something wrong with DinnerFormViewModel.cs. Here's what mine looks like:

Code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace NerdDinner.Models
{
	public class DinnerFormViewModel
	{
		private static string[] _countries = new[] {
				"USA",
				"Afghanistan",
				"Akrotiri",
				"Albania",
				//... omitted for brevity
				"Zimbabwe"
			};


		// Properties
		public Dinner Dinner { get; set; }

		// Custom shape Dinner makes view a lot cleaner because so we can use m.Title instead of m.Dinner.Title
		public string Title
		{
			get	{ return Dinner.Title; }
			set { Dinner.Title = value; }
		}

		public DateTime EventDate
		{
			get { return Dinner.EventDate; }
			set { Dinner.EventDate = value; }
		}

		public string Description
		{
			get { return Dinner.Description; }
			set { Dinner.Description = value; }
		}

		public string Address
		{
			get { return Dinner.Address; }
			set { Dinner.Address = value; }
		}

		public string Country
		{
			get { return Dinner.Country; }
			set { Dinner.Country = value; }
		}


		public string ContactPhone
		{
			get { return Dinner.ContactPhone; }
			set { Dinner.ContactPhone = value; }
		}

		public double Latitude
		{
			get { return Dinner.Latitude; }
			set { Dinner.Latitude = value; }
		}

		public double Longitude
		{
			get { return Dinner.Longitude; }
			set { Dinner.Longitude = value; }
		}
		// end custom shape




		public SelectList Countries { get; private set; }

		// Constructor
		public DinnerFormViewModel(Dinner dinner)
		{
			Dinner = dinner;

			Countries = new SelectList(_countries, dinner.Country);
		}

	}
}