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Difference between DropDownlist or DropDownListFor Html helper

I’m new in asp.net mvc and .net. In general my programming background in PHP.

What is the difference between DropDownList and DropDownListFor? Why the For ?

Where I can find a definition for every one of this helpers and an example to understand how to use it?

Answer 1

Basic difference includes:

DropdownList                              DropDownListFor
- weakly typed(runtime time checking    -strongly typed(compile time checking)
- support since mvc 1                    -supports from mvc 2
-do not support lambda expression to     -supports
     specify id/name of element         
- need to hardcode the id/name           -simply specifying via viewmodel with the help of lambda expression            
  of element