Question

I know this is a silly question but i can’t find out how to get the selected value from my dropdownlist 🙁

Init the dropdownlist:

             SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("SelectAllUserID", connection);
             command.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;

            SqlDataReader sqlReader = command.ExecuteReader();
            if (sqlReader.HasRows)
            {
                TProjectMID.DataSource = sqlReader;
                TProjectMID.DataTextField = "UserID";
                TProjectMID.DataValueField = "UserID";
                TProjectMID.DataBind();
            }

Try to get the value of drop down list:

                String a;
                a = TProjectMID.SelectedValue;
                a = TProjectMID.SelectedItem.Value;
                a = TProjectMID.DataValueField;
                a = TProjectMID.Text;

It didn’t return the value I chose, it keeps returning the default value when the dropdownlist appear ??

Can anybody tell me what I did wrong ? Thank you

Answer 1

You need to make sure you are not re-loading the DDL everytime the page loads, in other words only fill it on the initial page load, and if it is a page postback, don’t re-load it so the value will be retained.

Something like this should work:

   protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!Page.IsPostBack) {

         SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("SelectAllUserID", connection);
         command.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;

          SqlDataReader sqlReader = command.ExecuteReader();
          if (sqlReader.HasRows)
          {
            TProjectMID.DataSource = sqlReader;
            TProjectMID.DataTextField = "UserID";
            TProjectMID.DataValueField = "UserID";
            TProjectMID.DataBind();
          }
        }

}

and then in your code to retrieve the value, this should work:

   string a = TProjectMID.SelectedValue;