Question

I have created a working DropDownListFor which gets the data from a selectlist which is Model.IssueSocialSec and then setting the value coming from the database is Model.SocialDBValue

However, when I click a Edit link which with query a repository passing the Model back to the page, that works, but if I do a needed redirect route to the page and nothing is there to bind the Model, then the page fails. I’m going to try having it pass back an empty Model, but I figured I would post this as I always like to hear feedback on “best practices” and lessons learned.

 @Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.SelectedSocial, new SelectList(Model.IssueSocialSec, "Value", "Text", Model.SocialDBValue), "") 

Answer 1

I ended up fixing it like this:

    ChildInfoModel childviewmodel = new ChildInfoModel();
    return View(childviewmodel);

before I was trying to just do:
return View()