ASP.NET MVC Cascade Dropdown Using jQuery And Entity Framework
Team, Here's an example of how to perform a cascading dropdown in ASP.NET MVC using jQuery and Entity Framework as the ORM. This example will use Microsoft's sample database called WideWorldImporters . So to start with, we need to create an ASP.NET MVC Project and add bootstrap and jQuery files through NuGet. Then add an ADO.NET Entity Data Model (Entity Framework) which maps to the WideWorldImporters database. Once done, add a new class called CountryStatesCitiesViewModel with an enumerable property called CountryList which contains country values that will bind to the country dropdownlist control in the UI. public class CountryStatesCitiesViewModel { public IEnumerable<SelectListItem> CountryList { get ; set ; } } Add a controller called Home with a default Index ActionResult method that retrieves country list from the database and store them to the model used for data binding of the dropdownlist control. I checked the WideWorldImporters db and found out