How to bind data to dropdown control of View (.cshtml) using MVC4.0?

I would like to share tips and tricks in my MVC4.0 related articles so that it will guide MVC 4.0 beginners.

Binding different controls in views become quite tricky sometimes. A Web-API is a defined set of HTTP request messages with proper definition of the structure of response messages.

If you are using Razor then development part is challenging if you do not know how to go ahead. You have to play around with HTML5,jQuery in .cshtml pages.
If you want to retrieve data from database at runtime and bind it in dropdown control then you can use following code:

classname clsObj = null;       
 [HttpGet]
        public ActionResult Create()
        {

            var httpclientobj = new HttpClient();
            clsObj = new classname();
            var my_contents = httpclientobj.GetAsync("http://localhost:your_port_number/api/your_api_controller_name")
           .ContinueWith((resultant_task) =>
           {
               var response = resultant_task.Result;
               var contents_read = response.Content.ReadAsAsync<List<lstinClass>>();
               contents_read.Wait();
               clsObj.lstinClass = new List();
               clsObj.lstinClass.AddRange(contents_read.Result);
           });
            my_contents.Wait();
            IEnumerable data_retrieval_list = from ob in clsObj.lstinClass
                                                     select new SelectListItem
                                                     {
                                                         Text = ob.column_name,
                                                         Value = ob.column_name.ToString()
                                                     };
            ViewBag.temp_view_bag = data_retrieval_list;
            return View();
        }

@Html.DropDownListFor(m=>m.propertyname , (IEnumerable)ViewBag.temp_view_bag)