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Using DropDownLists with Postback

Page history last edited by PBworks 13 years, 3 months ago

Using a DropDownList with Postback

 

 

Prerequisites

 

 

 

Description of Video

 

This lecture goes over how to create and use a dropdownlist and have it trigger the contents of a second dropdownlist. In addition it demonstrates how to create a DataTable in Code. Code for this example is in C#

 

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Reference Materials

 

Default.aspx.cs

 

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace ComboBoxExample
{
    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (!Page.IsPostBack)
            {
                ddlStates.AutoPostBack = true;
                ddlStates.DataSource = ResourceCommon.DataTableStates();
                ddlStates.DataTextField = ResourceCommon.DataTable_States_StateName;
                ddlStates.DataValueField = ResourceCommon.DataTable_States_StateAbbreviation;
                ddlStates.DataBind();
            }

        }

        protected void ddlStates_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            ddlCities.Visible = true;
            ddlCities.DataSource = ResourceCommon.DataTableCities(ddlStates.SelectedValue);
            ddlCities.DataTextField = "CityName";
            ddlCities.DataValueField = "CityName";
            ddlCities.DataBind();
        }
    }
}

Default.aspx

 

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="ComboBoxExample._Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <asp:DropDownList runat="server" ID = "ddlStates" 
            onselectedindexchanged="ddlStates_SelectedIndexChanged" ></asp:DropDownList><br />
            
        <asp:DropDownList runat="server" ID = "ddlCities" visible="false"></asp:DropDownList><br />

    </div>
    </form></body></html>

 

ResourceCommon.cs

 


using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Data;

namespace ComboBoxExample
{
    public class ResourceCommon
    {
        public const String DataTable_States_StateName = "StateName";
        public const String DataTable_States_StateAbbreviation = "StateAbbreviation";

        public static DataTable DataTableStates()
        {
            DataTable dt = new DataTable("States");

            dt.Columns.Add("StateName", Type.GetType("System.String"));
            dt.Columns.Add("StateAbbreviation", Type.GetType("System.String"));

            FillRowState(dt, "Florida", "FL");
            FillRowState(dt, "Georgia", "GA");
            FillRowState(dt, "Alabama", "AL");

            return dt;
        }

        private static void FillRowState(DataTable dt, String StateName, String StateAbbreviation)
        {
            DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();

            dr["StateName"] = StateName;
            dr["StateAbbreviation"] = StateAbbreviation;

            dt.Rows.Add(dr);
        }

        public static DataTable DataTableCities(String StateAbbreviation)
        {
            DataTable dt = new DataTable("Cities");

            dt.Columns.Add("CityName", Type.GetType("System.String"));

            switch (StateAbbreviation)
            {
                case "FL":
                    FillRowCities(dt, "Jacksonville");
                    FillRowCities(dt, "Orlando");
                    FillRowCities(dt, "Miami");
                    FillRowCities(dt, "Tampa");
                    break;

                case "GA":
                    FillRowCities(dt, "Atlanta");
                    FillRowCities(dt, "Savannah");
                    break;
                
                case "AL":
                    FillRowCities(dt, "Birminingham");
                    FillRowCities(dt, "Huntsville");
                    break;
            }

            return dt;
        }

        private static void FillRowCities(DataTable dt, String CityName)
        {
            DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();

            dr["CityName"] = CityName;
            dt.Rows.Add(dr);
        }
    }
}

 

 

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