I almost have this solved but need a little push.

Here's what I have:

In the database I have a field called active that is a bit field (True/False)

I have placed a dropdownlist on the View form like this:

<%= Html.DropDownList("lstActive", new SelectList((IEnumerable)ViewData["ActiveList"])) %>

In my controller, I simply have this code to generate the True/False in the dropdown:

        List<string> activeList = new List<string>();
        activeList.Add("True");
        activeList.Add("False");

        ViewData["ActiveList"] = new SelectList(activeList);

I want to bind to the field in the database called active and select it in the dropdown. When I view it like this I get this:

So the questions are these:

Obviously I am not pointing to the Value and Text property but what is that in this case? And how do I select the value that is in the database?

Any help would be appreciated.