title: How to set the initial text of a kendo combo box inside a kendo grid edit row
body: <p>I'm using a editor template to display a combo box for one of the columns in my grid.  I want to set the initial text of the combo box from a model property other than the value property.  I could normally do this using the Text operator, but because this is inside a grid, I need to load from the data of that particular row.  Here's my editor template code:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-vb prettyprint-override"><code>@(Html.Kendo().ComboBoxFor(Function(x) x) _
  .DataTextField("PartNumber") _
  .DataValueField("PartID") _
  .MinLength(2) _
  .AutoBind(False) _
  .Text(  "what do I put here"  ) _
  .Filter(FilterType.StartsWith) _
  .DataSource(Sub(dataSource)
                      dataSource _
                      .Read(Sub(reader)
                                    reader.Action("StartsWith", "Part")
                                    reader.Type(HttpVerbs.Post)
                            End Sub) _
                      .ServerFiltering(True)
              End Sub)
  )
  </code></pre>