problem in dropdownlist within gridview

Question

hi to all

how to add a dropdownlist to gridview and how to add a datasource to dropdown.

for example:

i have gridview with 5 colomns c1,c2,c3,c4,c5 here i want to add a dropdownlist only c1 and c2 what is the procedure for do this work

note: vs2008,asp.net with c#

thanks

Answer 1

Check out the RowDataBound event of the GridView control.

There you can drop a new DropDownList into whatever cell you want to and bind it to any DataSource you like.

Answer 2

You can edit the columns in the GridView and set those two to be TemplateColumns, then put a DropDownList called DropDownList1 in the TemplateColumn. Then as Hunter says use the DataBound event to bind to say a dataset like so:

DropDownList list = e.Item.FindControl("DropDownList1");
list.DataSource = < your DataSet here>;
list.DataValueField = "code";
list.DataTextField = "description";
list.DataBind();