Dropdown List with Grid in Edit Mode 1

[dvannoy]

I'm using a dropdown list inside a gridview during edit mode. how do you set the dropdown list to pick up the value that's in the field you want to edit ?

Thanks

 

[jbenson001]

Good question, I was just working on the same code. This is what I did, but there may be better ways:
In the EditItemTemplate I put a literal and assigned the ID value to it i needed, and made it not visible(you can use any value you need):

 <asp:Literal ID="yourLiteral" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("IDvalueYouNeed") %>'
        Visible="false"></asp:Literal>

Then in your code, use the RowDataBound:

If (e.Row.RowState = DataControlRowState.Edit) OrElse (e.Row.RowState = (DataControlRowState.Edit Or DataControlRowState.Alternate)) Then
            Dim id as Integer = DirectCast(e.Row.FindControl("yourLiteral").Text
            Dim ddl As DropDownList = DirectCast(e.Row.FindControl("YourDDL"), DropDownList)
            'Here, add or bind your dropdownlistvalues
            ddl.Items.FindByValue(id).Selected = True

This should get you going. Hope it helps.

 

[dvannoy]

Perfect, sorry for the late reply. This really helped me out.

Thanks again

 

[jbenson001]

Cool, glad it helped