I asked a question is stackoverflow wonder if some here can help me out. I'm just trying to do a basic dropdownlist tried several methods that are available online all failed.

Here is the link

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52786867/difficulties-with-dropdownlist-in-asp-net-mvc5?noredirect=1#comment92495644_52786867

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I can retype the entire code here & not reference stackoverflow if you want.