how to bind a drop down list placed in edit template in grid view

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Hi,
I have a drop down list placed in the edit template of a grid view...
now on the edit button click i have to bind the drop down list... how to do that...

thanks in advance

Posted 10-Nov-14 20:28pm

Arkadeep De

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Laiju k 11-Nov-14 2:31am

are you trying to simply bind or have make the saved value as selected value also

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You can bind dropdownlist on row created event of gridview by finding dropdownlist and you wanna set selected value in dropdownlist then you can give selectedvalue='<%Databinder.Eval("ur column name")%>' in ur control also.

You can follow this link

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17289556/set-selected-value-or-text-for-dropdownlist-in-edit-mode-of-gridview-asp-net[^]

Posted 11-Nov-14 0:54am

Rahul_Pandit

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Kan07 · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-10T20:44:00

<grid>
<edit item="" template="">
<dropdownlist id="ddltype" runat="server" datasourceid="dstype">
DataTextField="TYPE" DataValueField="TYPE_ID" AppendDataBoundItems="true" >
<sqldatasource id=" runat="server" connectionstring="<br" mode="hold" /> ProviderName="System.Data.OracleClient" SelectCommand= SelectCommandType=text

/xml>