How to have preselected value of dropdown in VB

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Hi, everyone. I work on a mvc vb application. In my "Edit" form I have dropdown and I want my dropdown to have preselected value. In my controller my code is:

ViewBag.studyTypes = New SelectList(service.GetStudyTypesForDropDown(), "Value", "Text", oneStudy.StudyTypeName)

In my view my code is:

@Html.DropDownList("studyTypes", Nothing, "All", New With {Key .style = "width:280px;"})

But when I load the Edit view, the dropdown value is "All", not preselected as I want it to be. Can you give an advice, how to do it?

What I have tried:

The code above is what I tried but without success

Posted 25-Jan-19 3:01am

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Updated 28-Jan-19 2:29am

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Live for Coding · Answer 1 · 2019-01-28T02:29:00

Solution 1

@Html.DropDownList.SelectedIndex = 2

It uses the index.

Posted 28-Jan-19 2:29am

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