Question

This is my list definition

public class EventsList
    {
        public int EventID { get; set; }
        public string EventName { get; set; }
    }

This is C# code

string strCurrentUser = CommonWeb.GetLoginUser();
       EventsClass EventObj = new EventsClass();
       DataSet ds;
       List< EventsList> eventList = new List<EventsList>();
       EventsList eventobj = new EventsList();
       ds=EventObj.GetEvents(strCurrentUser);

I have a dropdown in which it should have the dropdown menu as the EventName alone. How can I retrieve only the EventName from the list and display that in the dropdown?

Answer 1

To display the EventName only to the dropdown, you will need to set the following two properties:

• DataValueField to EventId.
• DataTextField to EventName.

Something like:

dropdown.DataSource = ds;
dropdown.DataValueField  = "EventID";
dropdown.DataTextField = "EventName";
dropdown.DataBind();