Multiselect initialized multiple times

[jmsolutionsgroup]

When I'm trying to use the MVC Wrappers for Kendo alongside knockout I'm unable to use the multiselect wrapper. It appears that the plugin is initializing the control even if it already exists from the MVC Wrapper.

I would like to turn the code below

into something like this in Razor

@(Html.Kendo().MultiSelect()
        .Name("selectMultiple")
        .DataTextField("Name")
        .DataValueField("Id")
        .DataSource(ds => ds
            .Read(rd => rd.Url("/api/Names").Type(HttpVerbs.Get))
        )
        .AutoBind(false)
        .HtmlAttributes(new { data_bind = "value: selectedValue" })
)

[lcornejo]

this is probably a Kendo bug/feature if you read the value method documentation that forces a data fetch each time its set. Telerik mentions a workaround