Question

I have a method:

public IEnumerable<Company> Select()
{
   DataClassesCompanyDataContext dc = new DataClassesCompanyDataContext();
   System.Data.Linq.Table<Company> company = dc.GetTable<Company>();
   Company com = new Company();
   return dc.Companies.OrderBy(e => e.company_id);
}

By this I want to bind dropdown.

I am using this method:

private void fillCompanyNameDropdown()
{
    PioneerDataAccess.CompanyClass comp = new PioneerDataAccess.CompanyClass();
    var objcomp = comp.Select().ToList();
    ddlCompanyOff.DataSource = objcomp[0].company_name;

    ddlCompanyOff.DataBind();
}

But the problem is that if the company name is pulil then it shows

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So what can I do??

Answer 1

Code for you…this will might resolve your issue

var objcomp = comp.Select().ToList();             
ddlCompanyOff.DataSource = objcomp ;
ddlCompanyOff.DataTextField = "company_name";              
ddlCompanyOff.DataValueField = "company_name";              
ddlCompanyOff.DataBind();