Razor - cast IEnumerable in dropdownlist

Question

How to cast in MVC 3 an object from ViewBag to IEnumerable ?

i would like to do soethnig like that:

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.CategoryID, @(IEnumerable<SelectListItem>)ViewBag.CategoriesList)

the dropdownlist takes IEnumerable as an argument, but I don't know how to cast it properly. The above code returns an error.

Answer 1

@Html.DropDownListFor(
    model => model.CategoryID, 
    (IEnumerable<SelectListItem>)ViewBag.CategoriesList
)