combobox in griditemtemplate + databinding

[Bryan]

Hi, i would like to use the a combobox in the grid item template and i would like to populate the combobox with data from my db, but also do the databinding from the codebehind, is there a way to do this? 

[Princy]

Hello Bryan,

You can try the following code snippet in ItemCreated event to populate RadComboBox from code behind.
aspx:

<telerik:GridTemplateColumn>
     <ItemTemplate>
          <telerik:RadComboBox ID="RadComboBox1" runat="server"></telerik:RadComboBox>
     </ItemTemplate>
</telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

C#:

protected void RadGrid1_ItemCreated(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
 if (e.Item is GridDataItem)
 {
     GridDataItem item = (GridDataItem)e.Item;
     RadComboBox combo = (RadComboBox)item.FindControl("RadComboBox1");
     combo.DataSourceID = "SqlDataSource1";
     combo.DataTextField = "EmployeeID";
     combo.DataValueField = "EmployeeID";
     combo.DataBind();
 }
}

Thanks,
Princy.