title: MVC Listbox without ListItems
body: <p>I'm trying to show 2 listboxes one with all the possible choices &amp; other will populate as users select their choices but for some reason I can't add an empty listbox.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@Html.ListBox("somename")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>&amp; my error is:
  There is no ViewData item of type 'IEnumerable' that has the key 'somename'.</p>
  
  <p>It I replace the above line of code with the following then it works fine but I want an empty listbox:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@Html.ListBox("somename", liMyList)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>where liMyList is SelectListItem.</p>
  
  <p>is it possible to have an empty listbox in MVC? Please help</p>