Bind to List - Set Text and Value

[Marbry]

Is there a way to bind a list to a combo box, where the list contains two values on each item.  One to be the text, and one for the value?

This works very well as long as it only returns one value.  But it would be great if it could work like declaring an item individually and set PageID to the value and PageTitle to the text of each combobox item.  I've tried the DataBinding event, but the EventArgs seem to come back null.

RadComboBox1.DataSource = (from t in parentList
                      select new { t.PageID, t.PageTitle }).Distinct();
RadComboBox1.DataBind();

There is a way to bypass that by using the ItemDataBound event and just parsing out the string that's set in the DataItem like,

{ PageID = 1, PageTitle = Page1 Title }

[Kevin]

Hello Marbry,

From what I'm understanding of your situation is that you want to set the DataTextField and DataValueField of the RadComboBox to PageID and PageTitle, respectively. If so, you would do it like so:

RadComboBox1.DataTextField = "PageTitle";
RadComboBox1.DataValueField = "PageID";
RadComboBox1.DataSource = (from t in parentList
                      select new { t.PageID, t.PageTitle }).Distinct();
RadComboBox1.DataBind();

I hope that helps.

[Marbry]

Precisely what I needed, thanks Kevin.