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Asked: 2026-06-15T14:16:12+00:00

I have a gridview that is connected to an sqldatasource , my select statement

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I have a gridview that is connected to an sqldatasource, my select statement joins two tables, Survey & Category. a column in Survey is Cateogry_ID which refers to the primary key of the category table “ID”. The join i created is to show the category name instead of the ID. 

SELECT 
S.[ID], 
S.[Survey_Name], 
S.[Start_Date], 
S.[End_Date], 
C.[Category_Name], 
S.[Username], 
S.[Picture],
S.[Audience] 
FROM [Survey] S
Inner Join
Category C On S.Category_ID = C.ID

when the admin wants to update the survey table and wants to update the category, I only want him to pick from the names in the category_name column from category table.. How can I bind a dropdownlist in the edit template of that column and achieve this in design time?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There’s a working example of binding table column in sql to gridview here. how-to-bind-a-dropdownlist-with-a-edititemtemplate-in-the-gridview use your column name there to achieve the same.

    There’s a 

    <EditItemTemplate>
<asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDistinctDS"
 DataTextField="state" DataValueField="state" SelectedValue='<%# Bind("your column name") %>' >
 </asp:DropDownList>
</EditItemTemplate>
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