Question

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. I have a dropdownlist for a view that reads from our database all of the wine producers we have. I want to set the selectedValue to a particular ID driven by the referring page. I can see it picks up the selectedValue in debug, I see the selected value populated (906 for this example), but it doesn’t set the dropdownlist to the correct value when the page is rendered, it always defaults to 1 for the default value. I’ve tried creating the selectList in razor as opposed to my controller, but nothing works. Any help on this would be appreciated, I’m guessing it is something small.

Controller:

        if (User.IsInRole("admin"))
        {
            if (ID != 0)
            {
                ViewBag.ProducerSelect = new SelectList(db.Producers.OrderBy(p => p.Name), "ProducerID", "Name", ID);
            }
            else
            {
                ViewBag.ProducerSelect = new SelectList(db.Producers.OrderBy(p => p.Name), "ProducerID", "Name");
            }
        }

View:

if (User.IsInRole("producereditor"))
{
    <h3>@ViewBag.ProducerName</h3>
}
    else
{
<div class="editor-label">
    @Html.LabelFor(m => m.Wine.ProducerID, "Producer")
</div>
<div class="editor-field">
    @Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.Wine.ProducerID, ViewBag.ProducerSelect as SelectList)
</div>
}

Tried the below but no success:

         ViewBag.ProducerSelect = new SelectList(from p in db.Producers
                                                    orderby p.Name
                                                    select new { p.ProducerID, p.Name }
                                                    , "ProducerID", "Name", ID);

Answer 1

I figured this out. I had ViewModel.wine.ProducerID elsewhere on the page in a hidden field, and that defaults to 1, so I just assigned that to passed in value, and it worked great. I knew it was something like that. Thanks!