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Dropdown in asp.net


Posted Date: 03 Nov 2009      Posted By: deepa      Member Level: Silver     Points: 1   Responses: 4



Hi all,

How to load data from database in the dropdown list?

please give some code.

Thanks,
Deepa





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Author: Hari    03 Nov 2009Member Level: GoldRating: 2 out of 52 out of 5     Points: 2

Hi,

Please find below the link. It has step by step tutorial

http://programming.top54u.com/post/ASP-Net-DropDownList-SQL-Datasource-Databinding.aspx

Also attached is a sample in VS 2008 SP1 which connectes to northwind database.



DropDownListDB.rar
Author: Anuraj    03 Nov 2009Member Level: DiamondRating: 2 out of 52 out of 5     Points: 2

Try this


Dropdown1.DataTextField = "Id";
Dropdown1.DataValueField = "Value2Display";
Dropdown1.DataSource = DataTable;
Dropdown1.DataBind();


Thanks
Anuraj
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Author: greeny_1984    03 Nov 2009Member Level: DiamondRating: 2 out of 52 out of 5     Points: 2

Hi,

You can fetch data from database using a query and assign the dataset
to dropdownlist.check this ex


sqlconnection conn=new sqlconnection("//connection string");
conn.open();
sqlcommand cmd=new sqlcommand("select * from table",conn);
sqldataadapeter da=new sqldatadapter(cmd);
dataset ds=new dataset();
da.fill(ds);
dropdownlist1.datasource=ds.tables[0];
dropdownlist1.DataTextfield="columnname";
dropdownlist1.DataValuefield="columnname";
dropdownlist1.Databind();



Regards,
Greeny_1984

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Author: Deepika Haridas    03 Nov 2009Member Level: DiamondRating: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5     Points: 3

Hello,

Check this link

http://www.dbtutorials.com/advanced/populatingdropdown-csharp.aspx



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