ID insert instead of Name

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I created a dropdown list which populate from a database when I click the save button I would like for the code to search through the data in the table column and if exist insert uniqueID instead of the text in the dropdown list.

Is this possible. if so can I get and example of the code or a link to something similar.

Posted 5-May-10 9:05am

postonoh

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if your dropdown list is bound with data base then u can use value property for ID which is primary key or unique key and Text property for text which display.

Posted 6-May-10 2:31am

Nasir M@hmood

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postonoh 6-May-10 9:47am

can you give me generic example

postonoh 29-Aug-10 20:54pm

example code please

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yeah...it's very easy

see here ADO .NET examples[^]

Posted 5-May-10 10:05am

William Winner

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Andrew Rissing · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-05T09:49:00

I'll assume your platform is ASP.NET. See the following:

ListItem[^]
ListItem.Text[^]
ListItem.Value[^]

You can just set the text to one thing and the value to another. You will need that to do what you're trying to do. Just use the 'value' member when constructing your database statement.