ASP.NET MVC - Html.DropDownList - Value not set via ViewData.Model

Question

Have just started playing with ASP.NET MVC and have stumbled over the following situation. It feels a lot like a bug but if its not, an explanation would be appreciated :)<

Answer 1

Ok I may be missing something from this thread however in C# the following works:

Html.DropDownList("ProfessionGuid", (SelectList)ViewData["Professions"])

Where 'ProfessionGuid' is the value to be selected in the list.

In VB.Net I believe it would be:

Html.DropDownList("ProfessionGuid", ViewData["Professions"] AS SelectList)