HTML Creating a drop down list from database linq MVC

Question

During my project I have encountered a problem I have a table of products and a table of suppliers supplying the products therefore when creating a product i need to choose a specific supplier from the data base the code I have tried so far just chooses an id of supplier which may not exist

<div class="editor-label">
    @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Name)
</div>
<div class="editor-field">
    @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Name)
    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Name)
</div>
<div class="editor-label">
    @Html.LabelFor(model => model.SupplierId)
</div>
<div class="editor-field">
    @Html.EditorFor(model => model.SupplierId)
    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.SupplierId)
</div>
<div class="editor-label">
    @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Category)
</div>
<div class="editor-field">
   @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Category)
   @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Category)
</div>

Answer 1

You can use DropDownListFor helper

<div class="editor-label">
    @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Category)
</div>
<div class="editor-field">
   @Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.Category)
   @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Category)
</div>

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