dropdownlist.selecteditem.text problem 1

[russellmunday]

Hi I have a page that has two dropdownlists on it the first has three static values the choice made here then query's a database and fills the second dropdownlist i then need to show an image from the selection but the code i am using does not return the image.
the dropdownlist autopostback is set to true

image1.imageURL = ("c:\mypic\" & partddl.selecteditem.text & "jpg")

i have also pulled the images into the solution and changed the path but no difference is there a property i need to set on the dropdownlist?

 

[dace]

Two possible problems I can think of:

1) Security issue - ASP.NET can't access that folder on your c: drive - try moving the images to a folder in c:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\yoursitename\images

(or wherever your virtual directory points), or give permissions to that folder to the ASP.NET user account.

2) partddl.selecteditem.text isn't returning the right value - try breakpointing here and checking. You could possible use partddl.selectedvalue instead.

 

[checkai]

or you need the dot

image1.imageURL = ("c:\mypic\" & partddl.selecteditem.text & ".jpg")

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[russellmunday]

thanks for the help I have however now got to the bottom of it the database table was adding extra characters so the file name had spaces and was not the right value I have changed the value in the table and all is wonderful again.