Hi,
in former WebForm projects I was using asp:DropDownList mostly in these kind of scenarios:
1) The DL was fully rendered server side and the selectable values have been populated using Object/SQL/LinqDataSource on the server.
2) The DL was two-way-bound (by the Bind or Eval statement) to a property of an arbitrary data model, e.g. in the context of a ListView or FormView.
To give you an example of the use case: Say a "status" property in a model need to have values like "On", "Off", "Unknown" and nothing else. An ObjectDataSource ensured, that the DL only contained the values for selection. Then the real model was queried in order to find the selected value and that was selected after Page_Load automatically. Once the user changed the selected value in the "status" DL, the new value was posted back to the server.
That worked fine.
I know how to achieve 1) in the "Kendo World", but I'm wondering, how I could simultaneously "two-way-bind" the DL to another model in order to set the "SelectedItem" form another data model as well as to POST finally changes made by the user.
Any pointer welcome
TIA