After googling for a while I'm still drawing a blank here. I'm trying to use a ViewModel to pull and provide a dictionary to a drop down list inside a strongly typed View:

<%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" Inherits="Notebook.ViewModels.CorporationJoinViewModel" %>

...

<%: Html.DropDownListFor(c => c.CorpDictionary.Keys, new SelectList(Model.CorpDictionary, "Value", "Key"))%>

I'm getting the error CS1061: 'object' does not contain a definition for 'CorpDictionary' and no extension method 'CorpDictionary' accepting a first argument of type 'object' could be found

and the relevant bit of my ViewModel

   public class CorporationJoinViewModel
    {
        DB _db = new DB(); // data context

        public Dictionary<int, string> CorpDictionary
        {
            get
            {
                Dictionary<int, string> corporations = new Dictionary<int, string>();

                int x = 0;
                foreach (Corporation corp in _db.Corporations)
                {
                    corporations.Add(x, corp.name);
                }

                return corporations;
            }
        }

I'll admit i have a pretty magical understanding of how linq is finding my ViewModel object from that lambda, and the error message is making me think it's not. Is my problem the method I'm using to pass the data? What am I missing here?