Datagrid DropDownList

[Skeptical]

Hello,

I managed to add a dropdownlist to my datagrid, I could either populate it
manually or could pull all the items it could have from a table , my problem
is I should be able to select the currently selected item in the table but I
am not sure how to do that programmatically. That is when I click edit on a
record there is already a value selected, and once I pull all values that
one can select I lose the selected item. Where should I set the selected
item property? C# code if you could present would be useful.

Thanks,

[ranganh]

Hi,

The following code might be of use to you
protected void DataUpdate(object Sender, DataGridCommandEventArgs E)
{
DropDownList TempList = null;
string TempValue = "";

TempList = E.Item.FindControl("dropdownlist1");
TempValue = TempList.SelectedItem.Value;

// Save TempValue to DB
}

Hope it helps.

"Skeptical" wrote:

Hello,

I managed to add a dropdownlist to my datagrid, I could either populate it
manually or could pull all the items it could have from a table , my problem
is I should be able to select the currently selected item in the table but I
am not sure how to do that programmatically. That is when I click edit on a
record there is already a value selected, and once I pull all values that
one can select I lose the selected item. Where should I set the selected
item property? C# code if you could present would be useful.

Thanks,

[Skeptical]

Thanks a lot ;)

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Hello,

I managed to add a dropdownlist to my datagrid, I could either populate it
manually or could pull all the items it could have from a table , my problem is I should be able to select the currently selected item in the table but I am not sure how to do that programmatically. That is when I click edit on a record there is already a value selected, and once I pull all values that
one can select I lose the selected item. Where should I set the selected
item property? C# code if you could present would be useful.

Thanks,