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

Binding dropdownlist is very tricky in MVC it embarrassed me a lot you can do it with this in your controller get all your cities list put it in viewBag

Create

      ViewBag.CityId = new SelectList(db.Cities, "ID", "Name");

user.CityID if you are in Edit so that on edit it select the city

      ViewBag.CityId = new SelectList(db.Cities, "ID", "Name", user.CityID);

in your View just do this trick

     @Html.DropDownList("CityId", "Select")

this is the most simplest way I know....