Display custom dropdown label value with LINQ (Razor)

//In your .cshtml file

@{
 var newSource = YourModel.SomeCollection.Select(m => new SelectListItem
 {
 Value = m.YourValueField.ToString(),
 Text = string.Format("Custom Text {0}: {1} {2}", m.FirstTextField, m.SecondTextField, m.ThirdTextField)
 });
 SelectList finalSource = new SelectList(newSource, "Value ", "Text");
}

@Html.DropDownList("ControlName", finalSource)

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