title: Populate a dropdown list from db
body: <p>I have an mvc 3 application with 2 tables in my entity framework. </p>
  
  <p>PurchaseTable which was PurchaseID,PurchaseDate &amp; ProductID I have another table called Product which contains ProductID and ProductName. creating a new view to insert a new purchase how do I change the textbox in the view for ProductID to be a dropdown bound by the ProductName in the Product table?</p>