Populate DropDownList using MVC 4 & Entity Framework

Question

I\'m developing MVC4 & Entity Framework Application.I wanted to populate DropDownList,I wanted to bind Category List to Dodropdown list

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Answer 1

Using the ViewBag (as some have suggested in other answers/comments) to get data from your controller to view is generally seen as a code smell.

Your ViewModel should ideally contain all of the data you need for your view. So use your controller to populate this data on a property of your ViewModel:

SelectList ProductTypes { get; set; }

Then bind your dropdown to this value

@Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.ProductType, Model.ProductTypes)

You can find this same answer given on this post.