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Need a demo MVC app that fills a drop down list in the View

I have used Nerd Dinner as an example but can not get that one to work for me. Does anyone have a demo I can download that uses HTML.DropDownListFor to populate a list? I am having problems doing that successfully.

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I agree about ViewData. I attempted going direct to my Model, with no success. They behaved the same. I agree that Strong Typing is the only way to go.

Now on to the Music Store...

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Question.

Do I need to add each item in the aspx file? Or shoudl the following be sufficient?
Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.role, ViewData["RoleList"] as SelectList)

Maybe I misunderstood Nerd Dinner. I see Musis Store has the attached code. But I have not looked at it very long to try and figure it out myself....

    <% foreach (var genre in Model) { %>
    <li>
        <%: Html.ActionLink(genre.Name, "Browse", "Store", new { Genre = genre.Name }, null)%>
    </li>
    <% } %>

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Thanks. For the record, I had not yet overrridden ToString(), which I think is why I got the list filling with MyProgram.Models.User.