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Use ListSearchExtender Of Ajax In ASP.NET

We use this extender on binded Dropdownlist.

Initial chamber

Step 1: Open Visual Studio 2010 and create an empty website. Give a suitable name dropdownlist_demo.

Step 2: In Solution Explorer you will get your empty website. Add a web form SQL Database. Follow these steps:

For Web Form:

dropdownlist_demo (Your Empty Website) - Right Click, Add New Item, then Web Form. Name it dropdownlist_demo.aspx.

For SQL Server Database:

dropdownlist_demo (Your Empty Website) - Right Click, Add New Item, then SQL Server Database. Add Database inside the App_Data_folder.

Database chamber

Step 3: Go to your Database [Database.mdf], we will create two tables - tbl_Data and tbl_save. Go to the database.mdf - Table and Add New table, Design your table like the following:

Table - tbl_data (Don’t forget to make ID - Identity Specification - Yes)

table design

Show table data

table

Design chamber

Step 4: Now open your dropdownlist_demo.aspx file, where we create our design for Dropdownlist in ASP.NET.

  1. <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>  
  2.     <%@ Register assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" tagprefix="asp" %>  
  3.         <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">  
  4.         <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">  
  5.   
  6.         <head runat="server">  
  7.             <title></title>  
  8.             <style type="text/css">  
  9.                 .style1 {  
  10.                     width: 576px;  
  11.                 }  
  12.             </style>  
  13.         </head>  
  14.   
  15.         <body>  
  16.             <form id="form1" runat="server">  
  17.                 <asp:ToolkitScriptManager ID="ToolkitScriptManager1" runat="server"> </asp:ToolkitScriptManager>  
  18.                 <div>  
  19.                     <table style="width:100%;">  
  20.                         <tr>  
  21.                             <td>  </td>  
  22.                             <td class="style1">  </td>  
  23.                             <td>  </td>  
  24.                         </tr>  
  25.                         <tr>  
  26.                             <td>  </td>  
  27.                             <td class="style1">  
  28.                                 <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server" AppendDataBoundItems="True" DataTextField="country" DataValueField="country" Height="33px" style="margin-left: 267px">  
  29.                                     <asp:ListItem>--Select Country--</asp:ListItem>  
  30.                                 </asp:DropDownList>  
  31.                                 <asp:ListSearchExtender ID="DropDownList1_ListSearchExtender" runat="server" Enabled="True" PromptPosition="Top" PromptText="Type to Search" TargetControlID="DropDownList1"> </asp:ListSearchExtender>  
  32.                             </td>  
  33.                             <td>  </td>  
  34.                         </tr>  
  35.                         <tr>  
  36.                             <td>  </td>  
  37.                             <td class="style1">  </td>  
  38.                             <td>  </td>  
  39.                         </tr>  
  40.                     </table>  
  41.                 </div>  
  42.             </form>  
  43.         </body>  
  44.   
  45.      </html>  
Code chamber

Step 5: Open your dropdownlist_demo.aspx.cs and write some code so that our application starts working.

dropdownlist_demo.aspx.cs
  1. using System;  
  2. using System.Collections.Generic;  
  3. using System.Linq;  
  4. using System.Web;  
  5. using System.Web.UI;  
  6. using System.Web.UI.WebControls;  
  7. using System.Data;  
  8. using System.Data.SqlClient;  
  9.   
  10. public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page  
  11. {  
  12.     protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)  
  13.     {  
  14.         if (!Page.IsPostBack)  
  15.         {  
  16.             refreshdata();  
  17.         }  
  18.     }  
  19.   
  20.       
  21.     public void refreshdata()  
  22.     {  
  23.         
  24.         SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\Database.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True");  
  25.         
  26.         SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("select * from tbl_data", con);  
  27.         SqlDataAdapter sda = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);  
  28.         DataTable dt = new DataTable();  
  29.         sda.Fill(dt);  
  30.          
  31.         DropDownList1.DataSource = dt;  
  32.         DropDownList1.DataBind();   
  33.       
  34.     }  
  35. }  
Output chamber

Output

select country

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