Question

My controller:

var types = _opportunityTypeService.GetAll(); //has id 1,2,3,4
viewmodel.OpportunityTypes = new SelectList(types, "Id", "Name", recipe.Id); //recipe.Id is 4

return View(viewmodel);

and my view:

and the html result:

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Html.DropDownListFor creates a dropdownlist FOR a property. In your case for the property m.OpportunityType.

So the selected item will be what is in m.OpportunityType. The Selected property in the SelectList will be used when you use Html.DropDownList.

So your code would be:

var types = _opportunityTypeService.GetAll(); //has id 1,2,3,4
viewModel.OpportunityType = 4;
viewmodel.OpportunityTypes = new SelectList(types, "Id", "Name"); //recipe.Id is 4

return View(viewmodel);