Question

I have a asp.net dropdown list that populates from a sqldatasource. My issue is that the first option needs to be (All). Is there anyway to add this extra option to the list before the eqldatasource list?

     <asp:DropDownList ID="REGIONS" runat="server" 
      Width="70px"  AutoPostBack="True" DataTextField="REGION_CD" 
      DataValueField="REGION_CD" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1"  >
     </asp:DropDownList>

     <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" 
      ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:PRODUCTION %>" 
      ProviderName="<%$ ConnectionStrings:PRODUCTION.ProviderName %>" 
      SelectCommand="select distinct(region_cd) from mv_gauge_filter_dist where     region_cd is not null">
  </asp:SqlDataSource>

Thanx!

Answer 1

Not tested, but this should work:

<asp:DropDownList ID="REGIONS" AppendDataBoundItems="true" runat="server" 
  Width="70px"  AutoPostBack="True" DataTextField="REGION_CD" 
  DataValueField="REGION_CD" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1"  >
  <asp:ListItem Text="ALL" Value="" />
 </asp:DropDownList>

 <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" 
  ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:PRODUCTION %>" 
  ProviderName="<%$ ConnectionStrings:PRODUCTION.ProviderName %>" 
  SelectCommand="select distinct(region_cd) from mv_gauge_filter_dist where region_cd is not null">
</asp:SqlDataSource>

Make note of the AppendDataBoundItems=”true”…