dropwon list question

[abcd]

I want to add to dropdown list the first entry as a hard coded entry then
after that I want to add the entries thru Data reader. How can I do
this...when I add listitem and then datasource = dataReader then my hard
coded listitem is overwritten....

any idea...

 

[Fred Hirschfeld]

You must do your data binding first and then add it later...

ddl.DataSource = reader;
ddl.DataBind();
ddl.Items.Insert(0, New ListItem(...)); // to insert
ddl.Items.Add(...); // To append

Fred

 

[abcd]

wonderful this solved the issue.

thanks

You must do your data binding first and then add it later...

ddl.DataSource = reader;
ddl.DataBind();
ddl.Items.Insert(0, New ListItem(...)); // to insert
ddl.Items.Add(...); // To append

Fred