title: how to get country list in dropdownlist in mvc3?
body: <p>I am working on a project and in the registration page I want to get a list
   of all countries in a dropdown list. Can anyone please show me what I
   need to do in the Controller, the View or whatever is required ? I have a view of the
  registraion page</p>
  
  <pre><code>@model Retail_MVC.Models.registration
  @{
  
      Layout = null;
  }
  
  &lt;div class="my_wrapper"&gt;
           &lt;div class="my_left_box"&gt;
              @Html.LabelFor(model =&gt; model.username)
           &lt;/div&gt;
           &lt;div class="my_right_box"&gt;
             &lt;input type="text" id="txtusername" name="UserName"/&gt;         
           &lt;/div&gt;
  
     &lt;/div&gt;
    -- here i want to get dropdownlist for all countries
  </code></pre>