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Initialize Drop-Down with current value

I'm new to ASP.Net and C#. I have a drop-down control to select a State, which has all the state values loaded into it. The 'value' of each of my items is the 2-character state abbreviation. The 'text' is the full state name.

On one of my pages, I want to display the current data from the database and let the user edit it.

How do I get the current state to show in the drop-down control? I think I need to match my existing value to one of the "values" in the drop-down, but I'm not sure what the syntax is for going through the values and finding the matching one.

I'd like to get an answer soon...

thanks, Ted

ap_sajith

May be this might be of help...

http://www.burgessconsulting.com/aspnet/aspnet/databind.aspx

Cheers!!

kingsfan76

maybe not the best way, but this works for me for pre-selecting a list item in ASP.NET:
(assume you already correctly populate the drop-down countrol with the states)

Sub Page_Load
if not IsPostBack then
dim theState
dim i
theState = "CA" 'i suppose you would get this value from database, i just use "CA" here
for i = 0 to StateList.Items.Count - 1
if StateList.Items(i).value = theState then
StateList.Items(i).selected = true
exit for
end if
next
end if
end sub

------------------- somewhere down in the <HTML>

<asp:DropDownList ID="StateList" Runat="Server" />

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