Html.DropDownList selected value not working using ViewBag

Question

Well, after a couple hours reading stuff over here, trying unsuccessfully all the solutions, also found this article that i thought it would save my life... nothing.

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Answer 1

I know its an old question, but I will share another solution since sometimes you have done anything correctly, but you can't see the selected value after a request and response, since your razor has bug maybe. In this condition, that I've had, you can use select-option using viewbag:

In controller I had:

 ViewBag.MyData = GetAllData(strSelected);
... 

and as a private function in controller I had:

  private List GetAllData(List selectedData)
    {

        return MyGetAll().Select(x =>
            new SelectListItem
            {
                Text = x.Point,
                Value = x.Amount.ToString(),
                Selected = selectedPrizes.Contains(x.Amount.ToString())
            })
            .ToList();
    }  

And in .cshtml I had:

  @foreach (var listItem in (List)ViewBag.MyData)
   {
     
       @listItem .Text
     
   }

I hope it will be useful for similar problems :)