MVC3 Razor @Html.DropDownListFor

Question

I could use some help implementing @Html.DropDownListFor. My objective is to filter the list of Products by Category.

This code will display a list box:

Answer 1

Your view is strongly typed to a collection of products so I suppose that you need a drop down for each product. If this is the case an editor template would work:

@model IEnumerable
@Html.EditorForModel()

And then inside ~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/Product.cshtml

@model Sample.Models.Product
@{
    List list = ViewBag.Categories;
    var items = new SelectList(list, "CategoryID", "CategoryName");
}
@Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.CategoryID, @items)