title: how to set a default value to kendo ui dropdown?
body: <p>I am using a kendo UI DropDownList control, how can we set a default value to the DropDownList?</p>
  
  <p>I have a selected list property in viewmodel as following : </p>
  
  <pre><code>public SelectList AuditTypes { get; set; }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then in controller I am populating the selected list and setting it to a default value</p>
  
  <pre><code>viewModel.AuditTypes = new SelectList(dropdownDetails, "Value", "Text", dropdownDetails.Where(x =&gt; x.Default == true));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and in my razor view I have the following code : </p>
  
  <pre><code>  @(Html.Kendo().DropDownList()
                      .Name("AuditType")
                      .DataTextField("Text")
                      .DataValueField("Value")
                      .BindTo(Model.AuditTypes)                     
                      .AutoBind(true)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The problem is that the default value is not being set.</p>