Hello Eric,
In order to overcome this issue, you need to set the items at once, not one by one. When the data is loaded, then set the ItemsSource of the ComboBox and the SelectedValue should work correctly.
Please let us know how did that work for you.
Best wishes,
Konstantina
the Telerik team
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