How to load dropdownlist at page load event,dropdown are in gridview footer row

Question

Hi,

I have a gridview with 4 dropdownlist and placed in footer row. I need to load these dropdownlists at page load. How to do it? Initially gridview does not have any data or is not binded to any data source but has just the dropdownlists

Answer 1

Hi Pankaj,

I have tried that but it did not work for me. Actually what i am trying to do is. I am not binding the gridview to any source but i need to have dropdownlist (4) with data from sql table. Should i use empty data template to display the gridview but the gridview should have dropdownlists populated from database. No other datt is there in gridview except for the dropdownlists which are populated.. Please give me some idea where am i going wrong?

Answer 2

use RowDataBound event to bind dropdownlist