I am just trying to populate a html.dropdown list using mvc2 in VS2008.

But the control is not displayed at all.

Here is my code

public ActionResult Index()
{

    ViewData["Time"] = DateTime.Now.ToString();
    var mdl = new List<SelectListItem>();

    mdl.Add(new SelectListItem
    {
        Value = "1",
        Text = "Module One"
    });
    mdl.Add(new SelectListItem
    {
        Value = "2",
        Text = "Module Two"
    });
    ViewData["moduleList"] = new SelectList(mdl,"Value", "Text");

    return View("MainMenu");
}

and here is the markup

<div>
  <%Html.DropDownList("moduleList", (IEnumerable<SelectListItem>)ViewData["moduleList"]); %>
</div>

Where did i go wrong ?