[Solved] Empty combobox

[Patrick Wilson]

I have a combobox that is populated by a sqldatasource. I would like for the combobox to show..."Please select an item" or just have it blank, when the page loads. How do i accomplish this?

[Schlurk]

If you set the AllowCustomText property to true and the AppendDataBoundItems property to true as well you can get this behavior. This is how I implemented it:

<telerik:RadComboBox ID="RadComboBox1" runat="server"
            DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" AppendDataBoundItems="true"
            AllowCustomText="true" EmptyMessage="Please Select an Item"
            DataTextField="ProductName" DataValueField="ProductName">
</telerik:RadComboBox>

[Patrick Wilson]

Schlurk,
thansk for the help.

Are there any good articles or do you have any guidence on putting a combo box into the insert mode of a radgrid?

Pwilson

[Schlurk]

You are quite welcome.

As for having a combobox in a edit column of a grid I would suggest looking into this documentation article discussing column types (along with anything else you find relevant to your implementation in the documentation) as well as this grid demo.