OBOUT - ASP.NET ComboBox - Populating with Data

ASP.NET ComboBox - Populating with Data - DataSet

The ComboBox can be populated from various types of data sources:

DataSourceControls - SqlDataSource, ObjectDataSource, LinqDataSource etc.;
LINQ - LINQ queries at runtime;
Collections (generic & non-generic) - IList, IEnumerable, etc.;
DataSet / DataTable;
Declarative

The ComboBox presented in this sample is populated from a DataSet. This is done by passing the DataSet to the DataSource property of the ComboBox and calling its DataBind method.

Also, the DataValueField and DataTextField properties need to be used to specify the name of the dataset's columns that will be used to populate the Value and Text properties of the generated ComboBoxItems.

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