Using DropDownList control in DataGrid
By Eric Zheng
When I was developing a web application couple days ago, I found some interesting things about the datagrid, I want to share them with other vs.net programmers, so I wrote this article. This article will demonstrate how to use DropDownList control in datagrid.

The essential part of the DropDown.aspx file is the following:

<asp:DropDownList id="DropDownList1" runat="server"DataSource="<%#  GetCategory() %>"DataTextField="categoryname"DataValueField="categoryid"SelectedIndex='<%# GetCategoryID((string)DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "categoryname")) %>' />

In second line, we set the datasource of the dropdownlist control to a function 'GetCategory()', this function fetches the Category records from database and returns a datatable. In the last line, we set the SelectedIndex to a funciton 'GetCategoryID', this function takes the current Categoryname as its argument, and returns the locaiton(an integer) of the Categoryname, this enables the DorpDownList control to display the correct Categoryname for the current record.
The following is the C# code:

using System;using System.Collections;using System.ComponentModel;using System.Data;using System.Data.OleDb;using System.Configuration;using System.Drawing;using System.Web;using System.Web.SessionState;using System.Web.UI;using System.Web.UI.WebControls;using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;namespace Management{        public class DropDown : System.Web.UI.Page    {        protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGrid ProductGrid;        protected DataTable _category;        //new a database class to get records, ProductDb is a public class         //containing several functions        protected ProductDb pdb=new ProductDb();            public DropDown()        {            Page.Init += new System.EventHandler(Page_Init);        }        private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)        {            if(!IsPostBack)            {                BindProduct();                            }        }        private void Page_Init(object sender, EventArgs e)        {            InitializeComponent();        }        void BindProduct()        {            //pdb.GetProduct() returns a datatable to Product's datagrid            ProductGrid.DataSource=pdb.GetProduct();            Prod