ASP:DropDownList in ItemTemplate: Why is SelectedValue attribute allowed?

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It means you cannot set it through the designer.

The correct way is:

The reason the bound method works is because the value isn't selected in design mode but at runtime after the control is bound to a datasource

The DropDownList.SelectedValue method is meant to be applied at runtime hence the error about not being able to set it 'decoratively'