ASP.net MVC DropDownList Pre-Selected item ignored

Question

I am facing a simular problem as outlined in the question \"Html.DropDownList in ASP.NET MVC RC (refresh) not pre-selecting item\"

I\'m using ASP.net MVC 1.0 and need to

Answer 1

Found the Answer

When the Name given to the control (the first parameter in this case being "SelectList") is the same as one of the Keys in the ViewData dictionary basically it screws up and ignores the pre-selected item in the SelectList

By simply renaming the DropDownList it works correctly and binds to the Pre-Selected item