title: trigger select event programmatically
body: <p>I have a kendoUI dropdownlist defined as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code> @(Html.Kendo().DropDownList()
                    .Name("EditGroupSelector")
                    .BindTo(Model.Groups)
                     .Events(
                      events =&gt; events
                          .Select("onEditGroupSelected")
                     )
              )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i understand that the select event does not get triggered when i call the api as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>editGroupSelector.select(0);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>after selecting the first item manually, i wanted to trigger the select event manually:</p>
  
  <pre><code>editGroupSelector.trigger("select");//api calls dont trigger events -&gt; trigger it manually
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this calls the event, but inside the eventhandler, i dont have my event and thus cannot get the new selected value:</p>
  
  <pre><code>function onEditGroupSelected(e) {
      var nameOfGroup = e.item.text();//e.item does not exist when triggered manually
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>how can i trigger the event so that i can actually use "e.item" inside my event-handler?</p>