How to create Select List for Country and States/province in MVC

Thank you for this

Here's what I did:

1.Created an Extensions.cs file in a Utils folder.

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

namespace Web.ProjectName.Utils
{
    public class Extensions
    {
        public static IEnumerable<SelectListItem> GetStatesList()
        {
            IList<SelectListItem> states = new List<SelectListItem>
            {
                new SelectListItem() {Text="Alabama", Value="AL"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Alaska", Value="AK"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Arizona", Value="AZ"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Arkansas", Value="AR"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="California", Value="CA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Colorado", Value="CO"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Connecticut", Value="CT"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="District of Columbia", Value="DC"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Delaware", Value="DE"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Florida", Value="FL"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Georgia", Value="GA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Hawaii", Value="HI"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Idaho", Value="ID"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Illinois", Value="IL"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Indiana", Value="IN"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Iowa", Value="IA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Kansas", Value="KS"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Kentucky", Value="KY"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Louisiana", Value="LA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Maine", Value="ME"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Maryland", Value="MD"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Massachusetts", Value="MA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Michigan", Value="MI"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Minnesota", Value="MN"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Mississippi", Value="MS"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Missouri", Value="MO"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Montana", Value="MT"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Nebraska", Value="NE"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Nevada", Value="NV"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="New Hampshire", Value="NH"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="New Jersey", Value="NJ"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="New Mexico", Value="NM"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="New York", Value="NY"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="North Carolina", Value="NC"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="North Dakota", Value="ND"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Ohio", Value="OH"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Oklahoma", Value="OK"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Oregon", Value="OR"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Pennsylvania", Value="PA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Rhode Island", Value="RI"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="South Carolina", Value="SC"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="South Dakota", Value="SD"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Tennessee", Value="TN"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Texas", Value="TX"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Utah", Value="UT"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Vermont", Value="VT"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Virginia", Value="VA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Washington", Value="WA"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="West Virginia", Value="WV"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Wisconsin", Value="WI"},
                new SelectListItem() { Text="Wyoming", Value="WY"}
            };
            return states;
        }
    }
}

2.In my model, where state will be abbreviated (e.g. "AL", "NY", etc.):

using System.ComponentModel;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace Web.ProjectName.Models
{
    public class ContactForm
    {

        ...

        [Required]
        [Display(Name = "State")]
        [RegularExpression("[A-Z]{2}")]
        public string State { get; set; }

        ...

    }
}

2.In my view I referenced it:

  @model Web.ProjectName.Models.ContactForm

  ...

  @Html.LabelFor(x => x.State, new { @class = "form-label" })
  @Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.State, Web.ProjectName.Utils.Extensions.GetStatesList(), new { @class = "form-control" })

  ...

public static List<SelectListItem> States = new List<SelectListItem>()
    {
        new SelectListItem() {Text="Alabama", Value="AL"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Alaska", Value="AK"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Arizona", Value="AZ"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Arkansas", Value="AR"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="California", Value="CA"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Colorado", Value="CO"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Connecticut", Value="CT"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="District of Columbia", Value="DC"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Delaware", Value="DE"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Florida", Value="FL"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Georgia", Value="GA"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Hawaii", Value="HI"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Idaho", Value="ID"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Illinois", Value="IL"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Indiana", Value="IN"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Iowa", Value="IA"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Kansas", Value="KS"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Kentucky", Value="KY"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Louisiana", Value="LA"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Maine", Value="ME"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Maryland", Value="MD"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Massachusetts", Value="MA"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Michigan", Value="MI"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Minnesota", Value="MN"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Mississippi", Value="MS"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Missouri", Value="MO"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Montana", Value="MT"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Nebraska", Value="NE"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Nevada", Value="NV"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="New Hampshire", Value="NH"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="New Jersey", Value="NJ"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="New Mexico", Value="NM"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="New York", Value="NY"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="North Carolina", Value="NC"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="North Dakota", Value="ND"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Ohio", Value="OH"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Oklahoma", Value="OK"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Oregon", Value="OR"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Pennsylvania", Value="PA"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Rhode Island", Value="RI"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="South Carolina", Value="SC"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="South Dakota", Value="SD"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Tennessee", Value="TN"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Texas", Value="TX"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Utah", Value="UT"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Vermont", Value="VT"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Virginia", Value="VA"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Washington", Value="WA"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="West Virginia", Value="WV"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Wisconsin", Value="WI"},
        new SelectListItem() { Text="Wyoming", Value="WY"}
    };

How we do it is put this method into a class and then call the class from the view

@Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.State, Class.States)

Thank You All! I am able to to load Select List as per MVC now My Working Code is below:

HTML+MVC Code in View:-

    <tr>
        <th>@Html.Label("Country")</th>
        <td>@Html.DropDownListFor(x =>x.Province,SelectListItemHelper.GetCountryList())<span class="required">*</span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th>@Html.LabelFor(x=>x.Province)</th>
        <td>@Html.DropDownListFor(x =>x.Province,SelectListItemHelper.GetProvincesList())<span class="required">*</span></td>
    </tr>

Created a Controller under "UTIL" folder: Code:-

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

namespace MedAvail.Applications.MedProvision.Web.Util
{
    public class SelectListItemHelper
    {
        public static IEnumerable<SelectListItem> GetProvincesList()
        {
            IList<SelectListItem> items = new List<SelectListItem>
            {
                new SelectListItem{Text = "California", Value = "B"},
                new SelectListItem{Text = "Alaska", Value = "B"},
                new SelectListItem{Text = "Illinois", Value = "B"},
                new SelectListItem{Text = "Texas", Value = "B"},
                new SelectListItem{Text = "Washington", Value = "B"}

            };
            return items;
        }


        public static IEnumerable<SelectListItem> GetCountryList()
        {
            IList<SelectListItem> items = new List<SelectListItem>
            {
                new SelectListItem{Text = "United States", Value = "B"},
                new SelectListItem{Text = "Canada", Value = "B"},
                new SelectListItem{Text = "United Kingdom", Value = "B"},
                new SelectListItem{Text = "Texas", Value = "B"},
                new SelectListItem{Text = "Washington", Value = "B"}

            };
            return items;
        }


    }
}

And its working COOL now :-)

Thank you!!