Hi,
how do i bind a xml (http://www.webservicex.net/country.asmx/GetCountries) to a dropdownlist? Currently I'm working with ASP.NET 2.0.
Greetings...
A:
First, call your web service from code behind... Then bind xml that you get from a web service to a dropdown. On this link you have how to do that:
http://forums.asp.net/t/999571.aspx
cheers
Marko
2010-07-19 10:28:15
I already called Dim myGeoService As New net.webservicex.www.country Dim myISOcodes As String = myGeoService.GetCountriesBut myISOcodes is only string. The next question is how to change a string to a dataset?
2010-07-19 10:33:30
GetCountries returns what?
Marko
2010-07-19 11:33:02
@Marko: open in browserhttp://www.webservicex.net/country.asmx/GetCountries
2010-07-19 11:57:13
ok, first you need to parse that xml and get values that you need for a dropdown:http://bytes.com/topic/visual-basic-net/answers/383280-convert-xml-string-datasetthen you can bind dataset to a dropdowncheers
Marko
2010-07-19 12:15:59
+1
A:
thx Marko, finally:
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim myGeoService As New net.webservicex.www.country
Dim myISOcodes As String = myGeoService.GetCountries
Dim reader As New System.IO.StringReader(myISOcodes)
If Not Page.IsPostBack Then
Dim mycountries As New DataSet
mycountries.ReadXml(reader)
DropDownList1.DataSource = mycountries
'DropDownList1.DataValueField = "value"
DropDownList1.DataTextField = "Name"
DropDownList1.DataBind()
End If
End Sub