I am trying to populate a dropdown list within a datagrid so that it bring up all the locations and has the location of the current employee as Selected.

The dropdown is a template column currently it shows the first location from the database.

I believe I can use the ItemDataBound property within the Datagrid but don't know how?

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Place the value you want to find in a column in the grid. Then hide that column. Then you can find that value in the ddl. You are correct in that you need to use the ItemDataBound event.

Something like:
Dim ddl As DropDownList
Dim ddlEmployees As DropDownList

ddl = CType(e.Item.FindControl("<YourDDL>"), DropDownList)
'Set the drop down list to show the value you want.
ddl.Items.FindByValue(e.Item.Cells(<cellindex).Tex t).Selected = True 'This is the hidden column.

Jim

Thanks Jim

But i am using c# .net

can anyone help?

cheers
Akshay

use this site to convert the code:

http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/uti...btocsharp.aspx

Jim

thanks for link to the converter..i tried it but still no luck

anyone else out there who can help?

DropDownList ddl;
ddl = (DropDownList)e.Item.FindControl("yourControlId");
ddl.Items.FindByValue(e.Item.Cells[12].Text).Selected = true;

This is the conversion of jbenson's code... 12 is your cell index for instance