MVC3 Dropdown List with Dictionary

This is fairly easier once you know how like most things in MVC.

Why you use a dictionary ?, well it is easier than than creating a customer model for each drop down or using some complex front end code.


I've extend my model to include two dictionaries for the drop downs as shown below. 

Below is sample code to create a new item where I populate the dictionary items from two list I get from the db via helpers.












On the MVC Page this is set to 

How this works on the MVC page 


@Html.DropDownListFor(      CALL FOR A DROPDOWN

model => model.StatusID,       THE DROPDOWN IS FOR StatusID
                                             
new SelectList(Model.StatusList, "Key", "Value")   DEFINE THE DICTIONARY StatusList with KeyValue 




On the Running Form