How to make selectedItem in a SelectList be dynamic. Anyone?????

Question

I have a SelectList:

SelectList DropDownListOfCatergories = new SelectList(UnitOfWork.ClassifiedCategories.FindAll().OrderBy(Order()), "Category", "Category");

This works fine as you can see I am ordering the list. Now when someone wants to edit something the selectedItem is alway's defaults to the first one no matter what category it is in.

How do I code it so the selectedItem is the correct category the classified is in? i.e dynamiclly generated from teh DB.

Answer 1

Not sure if I follow. Do you mean you want to specify the selected item? If so (and I'm using MVC 1.0 here), use the overload that takes 4 parameters, e.g.

SelectList DropDownListOfCatergories = new SelectList(UnitOfWork.ClassifiedCategories.FindAll().OrderBy(Order()), "Category", "Category", "My Selected Item");