ASP.NET MVC DropDownList and HTML Attributes « Rob Conery

I setup the Controller to creaet a SelectList, like so:

NorthwindDataContext db = new NorthwindDataContext();  var categories = from c in db.Categories select c;  ViewData["CategoryID"] = new SelectList(categories, "CategoryID", "CategoryName");  

Then, in my View I rendered the DropDownList:

=Html.DropDownList("CategoryID",ViewData["CategoryID"])%>

This is very important if you are using Html.DropDownList in MVC