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copied!<p>The <code>Selected</code> property in <code>SelectListItem</code> is mostly useless <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17691742/dropdownlistfor-not-respecting-selected-property-of-selectlist">(more about that in my answer here)</a>. The HTML helpers will ignore it in most cases. Instead, in your case, they will look at the values of:</p> <ul> <li><code>ModelState["IncludesWeekends"]</code></li> <li><code>ViewData["IncludesWeekends"]</code></li> <li><code>Model.IncludesWeekends</code></li> </ul> <p>... and turn whatever value they find into a <code>String</code>, then use that as the selected value. </p> <p>You have an <code>IncludesWeekends</code> property on your model, so it will do:</p> <pre><code>Model.IncludesWeekends.ToString() </code></pre> <p>... which - judging from your code - will result in True" or "False" (since it's a <code>bool</code>).</p> <p>In your case, you're using <code>c.Id.ToString()</code> as the <code><option></code> values for your dropdown, and since the helper won't find its chosen string ("True"/"False") among those values ("1"/"0"), it won't select anything.</p> <p>Ways around it:</p> <ol> <li><p>(Easiest way): Accept using "True" and "False" as your <code><option></code> values rather than integer IDs.</p></li> <li><p>(The almost-as-easy-but-not-very-clean way): Set <code>ViewData["IncludesWeekends"]</code> to the value you want selected (i.e., the <code>Id</code>). This works, because the helper will look at that before <code>Model.IncludesWeekends</code>.</p></li> <li><p>Use a view model, where you have an <code>IncludesWeekendsId</code> property, then use that to generate the dropdown, rather than <code>IncludesWeekends</code>:</p> <p><code><%= Html.DropDownList("IncludesWeekendsId", Model.YesNoList) %></code></p> <p>or</p> <p><code><%= Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.IncludesWeekendsId, Model.YesNoList) %></code></p> <p>Then, when returning from the view, translate <code>IncludesWeekendsId</code> back into the proper value on your model.</p></li> </ol> <p>In this case, I'd probably go with <strong>1</strong> if I wasn't in a pedantic mood. But solution <strong>3</strong> is a general, and mostly clean, way to solve this in cases where you have to use different values for your dropdown items than the value of your model's property converted to a string.</p>

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