[Solved] Select a specific value on data bind from WEBSERVICE

[New]

Hi,

I don't understand if this is possible... I've search and read a lot in examples and forum but I don't found any.

My scenario is a DetailsView within some ComboBox in edit template...

...when I'm in edit mode I will be select the binded value in the Combobox
(like when appends with this code <telerik:RadComboBox ID="RadCmb1" runat="server" ... SelectedValue='<%# Bind("Value")) %>' > )
...but I my case I load the ComboBox data from a webservice, but there are not items while a text is write in combo and for this reason the binding operation throws a error.

I use webservice for performance because the items in combobox are very much...
...there is a way to select an item from value when binding DetailsView?

Thanks
New

[New]

I found an approch that works:

I have a TextBox neer the RadComboBox... I bind the value for the RadComboBox in TextBox and on DataBinding event I add and select the item in ComboBox... It works but in my opinion this isn't a clean solution... there is a way to do it better?

    protected void TextBox1_DataBinding(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // TextBox that contains the value of the item to select in ComboBox
        TextBox txt = sender as TextBox;
        // RadComboBox to add and select item
        RadComboBox cmb = this.DetailsView1.FindControl("RadCmb1") as RadComboBox;
        if (txt != null && cmb != null)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(txt.Text) == false)
            {
                /*
                 *  Part of code to retreive item informations from db by value
                 */

                // adding the RadComboBoxItem with infornation and value
                cmb.Items.Add(new RadComboBoxItem(/*Informations*/, /*Value*/));
                // select the interested item
                cmb.SelectedValue = /*Value*/;
            }
        }
    }

[Simon]

Hello New,

Yes, you can handle the DataBound event of the DetailsView, find the RadComboBox inside it and create the Item by extracting the needed value from the DataItem.

Below is the sample code showing this:

protected void DetailsView1_DataBound(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (DetailsView1.CurrentMode == DetailsViewMode.Edit)
    {
        RadComboBox comboBox = DetailsView1.FindControl("RadCmb1") as RadComboBox;
        RadComboBoxItem item = new RadComboBoxItem();

        item.Text = (string)(DetailsView1.DataItem as DataRowView)["Value"];

        comboBox.Items.Add(item);
    }
}

Regards,
Simon
the Telerik team

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