Morning all.
I can see this has been discussed elsewhere but was wondering if anything had change or things made simpler in MVC 4 for simpletons like me?!
No changes occurred in ASP.NET MVC 4 RC in this aspect and are unlikely to occur when it hits RTM.
But you could still implement a custom helper to achieve that. And you could even improve this helper so that it takes a lambda expression as first argument instead of a string in order to have strongly typed version.
And if you are not using enums here's another example.