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

I leave this in case it helps someone else. I had a very similar problem and none of the answers helped.

I had a property in my ViewData with the same name as the selector for the lambda expression, basically as if you would've had ViewData["StatusId"] set to something.

After I changed the name of the anonymous property in the ViewData the DropDownList helper worked as expected.

Weird though.