I am very new to ASP.net MVC . I want to bind a dropdown with a datatable while the page is loading intitaally. In webforms, i used to do like:

```
dropdownname.datasource=dt;
dropdownname.textfield="name";
dropdownname.valuefield="id";

```

name and id are the column names in data table. I am using aspx view engine. Please help on this,