Html.DropDownList Selected Value Not Working (Using Constructor with IEnumerable)

Question

I have an issue where the selected value is not working for the Html.DropDownList helper method. See below:

This is My Controller:

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Answer 1

I tried lot of stuff but eventually got it working like this

In controller

int valittu_tila = 1;
var tapahtumantilat = new List();

tapahtumantilat.Add(new SelectListItem { Text = "Tapahtumaa kirjataan", Value = "0" });
tapahtumantilat.Add(new SelectListItem { Text = "Odottaa jonossa", Value = "1"});
tapahtumantilat.Add(new SelectListItem { Text = "Tapahtumaa käsitellään", Value = "2"});

ViewBag.tilalista = new SelectList(tapahtumantilat, "Value", "Text", valittu_tila);

And then in view I just put (I have the onchange event and class for dropdown too here but you can remove those if you want).

@Html.DropDownList("tuki_tila", ViewBag.tilalista as SelectList, "-- valitse tila --", new { @onchange = "executeticketsearch();", @class = "haku_dropdowns" })

(Sorry about finnish in the text values and variable names, but those shouldn't matter :D)