I'm currently working with a control that inherits from DropDownList (it has some extra functionality that isn't really relevant to this question, but it gives me a nice place to implement the extra stuff I'm gonig to discuss).
We're using data binding, with the DataTextField and DataValueField working absolutely fine. However, I find myself in need of a similar field that will control whether or not the item is enabled. (I've already overridden the RenderContents method of the control so it properly renders non-Enabled items, since DropDownList doesn't do this by default.)
Thus I'd like to know how to override the DropDownList's data binding so it acts exactly as normal, except a further field from each DataSource item is applied to each ListItem's Enabled property.
(NB: the field I'll be binding to isn't a straight boolean, and doesn't have an explicit/implicit cast to boolean, so I'll probably be "passing" it as a string.)