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    <p>I have done something similar. Here is some of the code (apologies upfront for this being quite long, but I wanted to make sure you could re-create this on your side):</p> <p>View looks like this:</p> <pre><code>using Cascading.Models @model CascadingModel @{ ViewBag.Title = "Index"; Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml"; } &lt;h2&gt;Cascading Forms&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;table&gt; @using(Html.BeginForm("Index", "Home")) { &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;@Html.LabelFor(m=&gt;m.CategoryId)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;@Html.DropDownListFor(m =&gt; m.CategoryId, new SelectList(Model.Categories, "Id", "Name"), string.Empty)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;@Html.LabelFor(m=&gt;m.ProductId)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;@Html.CascadingDropDownListFor(m =&gt; m.ProductId, new SelectList(Model.Products, "Id", "Name"), string.Empty, null, "CategoryId", "Home/CategorySelected")&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Go"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; } &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p>the Model looks as follows:</p> <pre><code>public class CascadingModel { public int CategoryId { get; set; } public List&lt;Category&gt; Categories { get; set; } public int ProductId { get; set; } public List&lt;Product&gt; Products { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>the real "clever" part of the system is the Html.CascadingDropDownListFor which looks as follows:</p> <pre><code>public static class MvcHtmlExtensions { public static MvcHtmlString CascadingDropDownListFor&lt;TModel, TProperty&gt;( this HtmlHelper&lt;TModel&gt; htmlHelper, Expression&lt;Func&lt;TModel, TProperty&gt;&gt; expression, IEnumerable&lt;SelectListItem&gt; selectList, string optionLabel, IDictionary&lt;string, Object&gt; htmlAttributes, string parentControlName, string childListUrl ) { var memberName = GetMemberInfo(expression).Member.Name; MvcHtmlString returnHtml = Html.SelectExtensions.DropDownListFor(htmlHelper, expression, selectList, optionLabel, htmlAttributes); var returnString = MvcHtmlString.Create(returnHtml.ToString() + @"&lt;script type=""text/javascript""&gt; $(document).ready(function () { $(""#&lt;&lt;parentControlName&gt;&gt;"").change(function () { var postData = { &lt;&lt;parentControlName&gt;&gt;: $(""#&lt;&lt;parentControlName&gt;&gt;"").val() }; $.post('&lt;&lt;childListUrl&gt;&gt;', postData, function (data) { var options = """"; $.each(data, function (index) { options += ""&lt;option value='"" + data[index].Id + ""'&gt;"" + data[index].Name + ""&lt;/option&gt;""; }); $(""#&lt;&lt;memberName&gt;&gt;"").html(options); }) .error(function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) { alert(jqXHR.responseText); }); }); }); &lt;/script&gt;" .Replace("&lt;&lt;parentControlName&gt;&gt;", parentControlName) .Replace("&lt;&lt;childListUrl&gt;&gt;", childListUrl) .Replace("&lt;&lt;memberName&gt;&gt;", memberName)); return returnString; } private static MemberExpression GetMemberInfo(Expression method) { LambdaExpression lambda = method as LambdaExpression; if (lambda == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("method"); MemberExpression memberExpr = null; if (lambda.Body.NodeType == ExpressionType.Convert) { memberExpr = ((UnaryExpression)lambda.Body).Operand as MemberExpression; } else if (lambda.Body.NodeType == ExpressionType.MemberAccess) { memberExpr = lambda.Body as MemberExpression; } if (memberExpr == null) throw new ArgumentException("method"); return memberExpr; } } </code></pre> <p>Controller Logic for those looking for it:</p> <pre><code>public ActionResult CategoriesAndProducts() { var viewModel = new CategoriesAndProductsViewModel(); viewModel.Categories = FetchCategoriesFromDataBase(); viewModel.Products = FetchProductsFromDataBase(); viewModel.CategoryId = viewModel.Categories[0].CategoryId; viewModel.ProductId = viewModel.Products.Where(p =&gt; p.CategoryId).FirstOrDefault().ProductId; return View(viewModel); } </code></pre>
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    1. CObtw - thanks to many, many stackoverflow articles for helping me get to this final solution
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    2. COYes I concur - In the end for me I wasn't using ViewModels correctly. I did know that, but I was foolishly looking for a quick solution. It turned out I wasn't referring to all the other relevant classes in my viewmodel (it was quite a detailed view using a few foreign keys). Once I sorted out the viewmodels I was fine. I'll mark this as the correct answer as it was what I was looking for, but putting the time in to understand viewmodels and returning JSON was what solved it for me. Thanks very much
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    3. COI've never had to make helpers before so I just made a new class and pasted the code in and added in as many Usings as I could think of but I still having issues with anything including Expression in it and (only this(Html)).SelectExtensions So MemberExp../LambdaExp.../etc all are missing their using. Do you still remember what using are needed?
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