Strongly-typed binding to a DropDownListFor?

Question

Normally I would bind data to a DropDownListFor with a SelectList:

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.CustomerId, new SelectLi         


        

Answer 1

There doesn't appear to be an overloaded constructor to allow for this. But there's no harm in manually specifying the DataTextField and DataValueField as a string is there?