Help with custom drop down when editing

[Greg Barretta]

I am defining a Grid Template Column using a label when in display and using a dropdown during edit and "add new". I am doing this exactly as given in example here. There is an important flaw in this example. When editiing, the example selects the Country in the drop down that matches the record that was previously saved, not the Country of the item being edited. Can anyone help me using this example to determine how to pull the Country of the item you are editing and in turn select the appropriate drop down.

[Shinu]

Hi Greg,

You can fix this by setting the list.SelectedValue from DataRowView value rather than setting from Session["updatedValue"], inside ItemDataBound event.

Try the following code inside ItemDataBound and see whether it helps:

C#:

if (e.Item is GridEditableItem && e.Item.IsInEditMode)

{

GridEditableItem item = e.Item as GridEditableItem;

// access/modify the edit item template settings here

DropDownList list = item.FindControl("List1") as DropDownList;

list.DataSource = Country_values;

list.DataBind();

DataRowView row = (DataRowView) item.DataItem;

list.SelectedValue = row["Country"].ToString();

}

-Shinu

[Greg Barretta]

Thanks Shinu, you put me in the right direction. My datasource is a LINQ query so I just needed to parse as an anonymous type.

list.SelectedValue =

DataBinder.Eval(item.DataItem, "country").ToString(); ;