Setting selectedvalue for a dropdownlist in GridView

asp.netgridview

I have a dropdownlist in my Gridview and I am binding a datasource to the gridview.

Though all the records are displaying properly the dropdown value is not selected.

How do I set something like

<%# Bind("Country") %> for a dropdownlist in the Gridview in ASP.net.

Thanks

Best Answer

You can hook into the RowDataBound event for the grid view, find the control and set the value.

protected void gridview_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{

     var dropdownList = e.Row.FindControl("YOUR_DROP_DOWN") as DropDownList;
     dropdownList .SelectedIndex = SET_VALUE_HERE;

}

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C# – Issue in dropdownlist within gridview

You can edit the columns in the GridView and set those two to be TemplateColumns, then put a DropDownList called DropDownList1 in the TemplateColumn. Then as Hunter says use the DataBound event to bind to say a dataset like so:

DropDownList list = e.Item.FindControl("DropDownList1");
list.DataSource = < your DataSet here>;
list.DataValueField = "code";
list.DataTextField = "description";
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