title: Telerik Combobox not displaying binded value
body: <p>I'm having difficulties with a telerik combobox that displays a blank value instead of the model's current value. </p>
  
  <p>I have the below model :</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-cs prettyprint-override"><code>    public decimal? ResourceId { get; set; }      
      public string ResourceName{ get; set; }        
      public decimal ResourceTypeId { get; set; }      
      public string ResourceTypeName{ get; set; }        
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I wanted my view to display the ResourceTypeName in a combobox in order to be able to change it so I added the below to my model</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-cs prettyprint-override"><code>    public IEnumerable&lt;ResourceTypeModel&gt; ResourceType()
      {
          ResourceTypeModel a = new ResourceTypeModel();
  
          a.ResourceTypeId = this.ResourceTypeId ;
          a.ResourceTypeName= this.ResourceTypeName;
  
          List&lt;ResourceTypeModel&gt; MyList= new List&lt;ResourceTypeModel&gt;();
          MyList.Add(a);
  
          return MyList;
  
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now, my view contains the following combobox :</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-cs prettyprint-override"><code>        @(Html.Telerik().ComboBoxFor(model =&gt; model.ResourceTypeId)
          .AutoFill(true)
          .DataBinding(binding =&gt; binding.Ajax().Select("_AutoCompleteAjaxLoadingResourceTypeList","ResourceController"))
          .BindTo(new SelectList(Model.ResourceType(), "ResourceTypeId", "ResourceTypeName"))                    
          .Filterable(filtering =&gt;
          {
              filtering.FilterMode(AutoCompleteFilterMode.Contains);
              filtering.MinimumChars(2);
          })
          .HighlightFirstMatch(true)                    
          )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when my view opens, the combobox shows a null value. </p>
  
  <p>If I click the dropdown button of the combobox, the value I want to display appears as if it was a second item of the list and I can select it.</p>
  
  <p>The combobox works perfectly for the autocompletion part and correctly shows all my available values when typing in it but simply does not show up directly with the needed value.</p>