[Solved] binding and selecting default value for combobox

[Teoman]

i binded a combobox with a sqldatasource and created a default selected value with combobox builder.I want to select default value for my combobox is "--all--".My code look like this but its not working.

<telerik:RadComboBox ID="market" Runat="server" Width="205px" DataSourceID="market_ds" DataTextField="Code" DataValueField="MainCodeID">
<Items>
<telerik:RadComboBoxItem runat="server" Text="-- all --" Value="all" Selected="true"/>
</Items>
</telerik:RadComboBox>

 

 

 

 

 

[Shinu]

Hello Teoman,

Set the AppendDataBoundItems property to True in order to achieve the functionality. Setting AppendDataBoundItems to True preserves the items that are already present in the combobox.

-Shinu.

[Teoman]

its working thank you.