Cascading Dropdown List in ASP.Net Using Entity Framework

This article shows how to work with a cascading dropdown list for country/state/city in ASP.Net using Entity Framework.

Create three tables as needed, as in:

CREATE TABLE country
  (
     countryID     INT NOT NULL,
     countryName   varchar(50) NOT NULL,
     PRIMARY KEY (countryID ),
  );
CREATE TABLE state
  (
 stateID     INT NOT NULL,
 countryID INT NOTNULL,
 stateName   varchar(50) NOT NULL,
 PRIMARY KEY (stateID ),
 FOREIGN KEY (countryID ) REFERENCES country (countryID));

CREATE TABLE city
  (
cityID     INT NOT NULL,
 stateID INT NOTNULL,
 cityName   varchar(50) NOT NULL,
 PRIMARY KEY (cityID),
 FOREIGN KEY (stateID) REFERENCES state (stateID));

First create an empty web application, as in:

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Add a model as we did earlier and do the necessary

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Add a web page to the solution and copy and paste this into the .aspx page:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="cascading.aspx.cs" Inherits="counrtybasedropdown.cascading" %>

 

<!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 id="Head1" runat="server">

    <title></title>

</head>

<body>

    <form id="form1" runat="server">

    <div>

        <center>

            <h3>

                Cascading DropDownList for Country/State/City in ASP.Net</h3>

            <table>

                <tr>

                    <td>

                        Select a Country :

                    </td>

                    <td>

                        <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlCountry" runat="server" AutoPostBack="true" OnSelectedIndexChanged="ddlCountry_SelectedIndexChanged">

                        </asp:DropDownList>

                    </td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                    <td>

                        Select a State :

                    </td>

                    <td>

                        <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlState" runat="server" Enabled="false" AutoPostBack="true"

                            OnSelectedIndexChanged="ddlState_SelectedIndexChanged">

                        </asp:DropDownList>

                    </td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                    <td>

                        Select a City :

                    </td>

                    <td>

                        <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlCity" runat="server" Enabled="false">

                        </asp:DropDownList>

                    </td>

                </tr>

            </table>

        </center>

    </div>

    </form>

</body>

</html>

Your .aspx.cs should be as follows:
 

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

 

namespace counrtybasedropdown

{

    public partial class cascading : System.Web.UI.Page

    {

        Database1Entities dbEntity = new Database1Entities();

 

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            if (!IsPostBack)

            {

                var country = from c in dbEntity.countries select new { c.countryID, c.countryName };

                ddlCountry.DataSource = country.ToList();

                ddlCountry.DataValueField = "countryID";

                ddlCountry.DataTextField = "countryName";

                ddlCountry.DataBind();

                ddlCountry.Items.Insert(0, "--Select--");

            }

        }

 

        protected void ddlCountry_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            int countyID = Convert.ToInt16(ddlCountry.SelectedValue.ToString());

            var state = from s in dbEntity.states where s.countryID.Equals(countyID) select new { s.stateID, s.stateName };

            ddlState.DataSource = state.ToList();

            ddlState.Enabled = true;

            ddlState.DataValueField = "stateID";

            ddlState.DataTextField = "stateName";

            ddlState.DataBind();

            ddlState.Items.Insert(0, "--Select--");

        }

 

        protected void ddlState_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            int stateID = Convert.ToInt16(ddlState.SelectedValue.ToString());

            var city = from c in dbEntity.cities where c.stateID.Equals(stateID) select new { c.cityID, c.cityName };

            ddlCity.DataSource = city.ToList();

            ddlCity.Enabled = true;

            ddlCity.DataValueField = "cityID";

            ddlCity.DataTextField = "cityName";

            ddlCity.DataBind();

            ddlCity.Items.Insert(0, "--Select--");

        }

    }

}

 

Happy coding.
 

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