Pre-select Last Record in a Dropdownlist c#

Question

I’m assigning a list to the DataSource, and in this assignment I am concatenating the code with the company name, however, it loads the list with the first selected item. How do I have the last record loaded preselected ?

My code is like this:

    for (int i = 0; i < empresa.Count; i++)
    {
            empresa[i].ParEmpresa = empresa[i].ParCodigo + " - " + empresa[i].ParEmpresa;
    }
    ddlEmpIni.DataSource = empresa;
    ddlEmpIni.DataTextField = "ParEmpresa";
    ddlEmpIni.DataValueField = "ParCodigo";
    ddlEmpIni.DataBind();

Answer 1

Do so

    for (int i = 0; i < empresa.Count; i++)
    {
            empresa[i].ParEmpresa = empresa[i].ParCodigo + " - " + empresa[i].ParEmpresa;
    }
    ddlEmpIni.DataSource = empresa;
    ddlEmpIni.DataTextField = "ParEmpresa";
    ddlEmpIni.DataValueField = "ParCodigo";
    ddlEmpIni.DataBind();
    ddlEmpIni.SelectedValue = empresa[empresa.Count()].ParCodigo;