MVC DropDownList SelectedValue not displaying correctly

Question

I tried searching and didn\'t find anything that fixed my problem. I have a DropDownList on a Razor view that will not show the the item that I have marked as Selected in th

Answer 1

Please find sample code below.

public class Temp
    {
        public int id { get; set; }
        public string valueString { get; set; }
    }

Controller

public ActionResult Index()
        {
            // Assuming here that you have written a method which will return the list of Temp objects.
            List temps = GetList();

            var tempData = new SelectList(temps, "id", "valueString",3);
            ViewBag.Statuses = tempData;

            return View();
        }

View

 @Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.id, (SelectList)ViewBag.Statuses)
    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.id)