Working with Lists

Question

public static List Title() { List items = new List (); items.Add(new SelectListItem { Text = MR Value =  }); items.Add(new SelectListItem { Text = MRS Value =  }); return items; } Please in the above code. Is there any possible way to automatically populate the value with the the vallue of the Text. Thanks

Vulpes · Answer

In that case I wouldn't use an object initializer - I'd add a constructor (or another constructor) to the SelectListItem class and use that instead: public class SelectListItem { public string Text {get; set;} public string Value {get; set;} public SelectListItem(string text) { Value = Text = text; } // other code } // ... public static List Title() { List items = new List (); items.Add(new SelectListItem(MR)); items.Add(new SelectListItem(MRS)); return items; }

Christian Nwamba · Answer

Its not a Database

Jignesh Trivedi · Answer

hi how are you fetch these 300 records from database or any static collection?

Christian Nwamba · Answer

Actually why am not doing it that way is that I wan to use that method to popoulate for all the Local Government in a Country and they are about 300 and more. Thanks

Vulpes · Answer

Well if you're setting the Text property anyway can't you just set the Value property to the same value? items.Add(new SelectListItem { Text = MR Value = MR }); items.Add(new SelectListItem { Text = MRS Value = MRS });

Munesh Sharma · Answer

private void Form1_Load ( object sender EventArgs e) { List String > vegetables = new List String >(); vegetables. Add ( tomato ); vegetables. Add ( carrot ); vegetables. Add ( celery ); vegetables. Add ( potato ); textBox1. Text = displayMembers(vegetables); } public string displayMembers( List String > vegetables) { foreach ( String s in vegetables) { someTextBox . Text = String . Join ( Environment . NewLine  vegetables ); } return null ; }