Question

For example, I want a user to create a new fanclub for a given Team.

Obviously the teams have to be loaded into a DropDownList so they are chosen from a pre-set choice group. The list of teams are returned from a database.

As of now I’m doing things like this:

//FindAll() returns IQueryable<Team>
var Teams = teamsRepo.FindAll().AsEnumarable();
myDropDownList.DataTextField = "Name";
myDropDownList.DataValueField = "ID";
myDropDownList.DataSource = Teams;
myDropDownList.DataBind();

Unfortunately when doing things this way I have no strongly typed attributes, so there is a risk of misspelling the ValueField or TextField.

There is also a problem when trying to get the selected value of the DropDownList. Using the following code, everything is saved with ID 1 regardless of what team was chosen.

fansite.IDTeam = myDropDownList.SelectedIndex;

Any suggestions on how to improve?

Answer 1

This is exactly how .NET databinding works, you have to type in the property names.

You could always add a converter to a combobox item and then call add (ms-doc)

As far as getting the value of the selected item try this:

fansite.IDTeam = myDropDownList.SelectedValue;