Duplicating DropDownListItems Without Looping

Question

This works like a charm... loading DropDownList2 with all the items from DropDownList1 without looping:

DropDownList2.DataSource = DropDownList1.Items;
DropDownList2.DataBind();

But, the data from the item text of DropDownList1 is copied into both the text and value fields of DropDownList2. Is there anyway to get both the text and the value fields to populate properly?

Answer 1

Does this work?

DropDownList2.DataSource = DropDownList1.Items;
DropDownList2.DataTextField = "Text";
DropDownList2.DataValueField = "Value";
DropDownList2.DataBind();

Answer 2

Try setting the DataValueField and DataTextField properties to "Value" and "Text" respectively. That should work.

Answer 3

Thanks Ben and Spencer! Yes, that did the trick.