DropDownListFor not setting selected value with different names

Question

I feel like this is very simple and I have done my research here:

Research

But it is not working.

Controller:

ViewBag.OwnerValue = new SelectList(db.tableName, "ID", "AName", object.OwnerID);

View:

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.AID, ViewBag.OwnerValue as SelectList, new { @class = "form-control" })

In my research the answer said to change the name of the ViewBag property so that it doesn't match the actual property name.. so that's what I did and the selected value is still not being set.

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

You would need to set the model property AID before passing the result to View in your controller action:

ViewBag.OwnerValue = new SelectList(db.tableName, "ID", "AName");

model.AID =  object.OwnerID;
return View(model);