ASP.NET MVC dropdownlist not selecting value on render

Question

I have this annoying problem where my DropDownlist doesn\'t select the current value by default.

Controller:

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Answer 1

I'm sure you're way past this, but I just got burned on this a moment ago because I had named the dropdown list the same name as the property in my view model class.

Changing the dropdown list name to something else cured it right up.