>>Why not use an enum for the Status rather than magic strings?
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>>>I have a demo project that I've been working on that focuses on advanced Entity Framework concepts. Here's the URL: https://github.com/mikecole/MovieFanatic
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>>>I just added an edit page that has has an example of how to populate a dropdown using Razor: https://github.com/mikecole/MovieFanatic/blob/master/MovieFanatic.Web/Controllers/MovieController.cs
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>It looks like a related table to me. I would suggest adding the bind attribute and using TryUpdateModel if its MVC 5 (http://odetocode.com/blogs/scott/archive/2012/03/12/complete-guide-to-mass-assignment-in-asp-net-mvc.aspx).

That is an interesting concept. Not sure if it applies for my specific example, since there are no sensitive fields in my ViewModel. That's one of the advantage of using a ViewModel instead of your database entity: you can craft exactly what you want the View to be able to do.