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My application has a series of dropdownlists with AutoPostBack set to
True and IndexChanged handlers as well. All of the dropdownlists are
bound and dynamically populated.

Is there a way to manually add an entry to a dropdownlist that is
bound? The reason I ask is because if the first item is the one the
user wants to select it is not able to postback since it is already
selected.

Hi Will,

You could just add a new item into the underlying data source.

For example, if you are using a datatable as the datasource, add a new row
to it with the topmost value to display, and then bind to the drop down.

You could also set up client side scripts so that a client-side validation
would ensure the user has made a valid selection.

Does this help?
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HTH,
Rakesh Rajan
MVP, MCSD
http://www.msmvps.com/rakeshrajan/



"Will Lastname" wrote:

> My application has a series of dropdownlists with AutoPostBack set to
> True and IndexChanged handlers as well. All of the dropdownlists are
> bound and dynamically populated.
>
> Is there a way to manually add an entry to a dropdownlist that is
> bound? The reason I ask is because if the first item is the one the
> user wants to select it is not able to postback since it is already
> selected.
>
>

> Is there a way to manually add an entry to a dropdownlist that is
> bound?

Yes.

DropDownListNavigation.DataBind()
DropDownListNavigation.Items.Insert(0, New ListItem("Pick An Option",
"null"))

-Darrel

Thanks to both of you. I am sorry to say that I am still getting an
error stating that I can't modify this list when a datasource property
is set. Thanks anyway!

> Thanks to both of you. I am sorry to say that I am still getting an
> error stating that I can't modify this list when a datasource property
> is set. Thanks anyway!

Did you use the code example I showed you? That seems to work fine in my
application. What is the exact error you get?

-Darrel