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06.12.2008 at 10:11AM PDT, ID: 23480311
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ASP.NET - Set index of drop-down list based on value.

Asked by josephdaviskcrm in .NET Framework 2.0, Programming for ASP.NET, Visual Studio .NET 2005

I've got a page with a dropdownlist on it.  When the page is requested, there is a value passed in the url query string that represents the value of one of the list items of the drop-down list.  As the page loads I'm trying to set the selected item of the drop-down list based on the value that is being passed in.

url query string is something like:
http://www.xyz.com/page.aspx?WHEREID=37

attempted code:
this code throws an error saying that FindByValue() cannot be converted.
ddlSelectLevel.SelectedIndex = Convert.ToInt32(ddlSelectLevel.Items.FindByValue(Request("WHEREID")))Start Free Trial
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