Best way of implementing DropDownList in ASP.NET MVC 2?

Question

I am trying to understand the best way of implementing a DropDownList in ASP.NET MVC 2 using the DropDownListFor helper. This is a multi-part ques

Answer 1

You could do something like:

<%= Html.DropDownListFor((x => x.ListItems), Model.ListItems, "")%>

or

<%= Html.DropDownList("ListItems", Model.ListItems, "")%>

The last param 'optionLabel' makes a blank list item

In this case, you can see ListItems is a property of the model.

I have made the view strongly typed to the model also.