How to fix the selected value for the MVC-3 ddl?

Question

in mvc i am binding a drop down like this

@Html.DropDownList("wantedTime", new List<SelectListItem>

                 {                                        
                    new SelectListItem{ Text="select time", Value = "#" },
                    new SelectListItem{ Text="12:00 AM", Value = "00:00"},
                    new SelectListItem{ Text="12:30 AM", Value = "00:30" },
                    new SelectListItem{ Text="01:00 AM", Value = "01:00" })

It is good for the first time to load but next time when the view reloads because of some reason i want to fix the selected value for the drop down that i hold in session.

So how can i fox the selected value for the ddl in MVC for the above scenario.

Related: [dropdownlist set selected value in MVC3 Razor](http://stackoverflow.com/q/6807256/1288) — Bill the Lizard, Apr 02 '13 at 11:14
it is not possible ti fix, or i need to go through some alternate ways — NoviceToDotNet, Apr 02 '13 at 11:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 02 '13 at 15:10

Can you be a little more specific on what you mean by "fix the selected value"? The link that Bill posted is exactly how you would persist the selected value of a drop down list between calls.

If you're holding a value in Session then the proper way to send it off to the view is either put it in the ViewBag or have a property on your view model for the selected value then just set that to what you have in Session.

Is there even a reason why you are keeping this value in Session?

How to fix the selected value for the MVC-3 ddl?

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