title: How can i create a SelectListItem() with Int Value
body: <p>I have the folloiwng code inside my asp.net mvc action method:- </p>
  
  <pre><code>var CustomerData = customerlist.Select(m =&gt; new SelectListItem()
              {
                  Text = m.SDOrganization.NAME,
                  Value = m.SDOrganization.ORG_ID.ToString(),
  
              });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>currently if i remove the ToString() from the ORG_ID , i will get an error that "can not explicitly convert long to string". so it seems that i have to define both the value and the text for the SelectListItem as strings. but since the SelectListItem should hold long , so is there a way to pass the values of the SelectListItem as long instead of strings?</p>