MVC 4: How to make DropDownListFor return 0 as optionLabel value?

Question

I have a create view with multiple DropDownListFors. Each time a new object is created only 1 of the DropDownListFors should have a value, I want the others to return 0 as t

Answer 1

Insert a new empty string, here's an example.

@Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.ProjectID, Model.Projects, string.Empty)