title: How to bind KendoUI DropDownListFor to ViewData or ViewBag?
body: <p>I'm trying to use KendoUI DropDownListFor for my model foreignkey and bind it with ViewData/ViewBag complete list but can't seems to work, am i missing something?</p>
  
  <pre><code>@(Html.DropDownListFor(model =&gt; model.Hotel.HotelStatusId, ViewData["HotelStatuses"] as SelectList))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This seems to work but required me to create a viewmodel.</p>
  
  <pre><code>@(Html.Kendo().DropDownListFor(model =&gt; model.Hotel.HotelStatusId)
                                .BindTo(Model.HotelStatuses)
                                .OptionLabel("select hotel status...")
                                )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm avoiding using viewmodel because i need to submit the data back to ASP MVC. With the custom viewmodel, i couldn't bind it correctly.</p>