title: ASP.NET MVC DropDownListFor with model of type List<string>
body: <p>I have a view with a model of type <code>List&lt;string&gt;</code> and I want to place a drop down list on the page that contains all strings from the list as items in the drop down. I am new to MVC, how would I accomplish this?</p>
  
  <p>I tried this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@model List&lt;string&gt;
  @Html.DropDownListFor(x =&gt; x)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but that threw an error.</p>