how to select with DropDownList.text

Question

I am working on an Asp.NET project and I am trying to set the selected value of a dropdown list with a text property. For example i have i.e an item in the dropdown list wit

Answer 1

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public static void SelectText(this DropDownList bob, string text)
{
    try
    {
        if (bob.SelectedIndex >= 0)
            bob.Items[bob.SelectedIndex].Selected = false;
        bob.Items.FindByText(text).Selected = true;
    }
    catch
    {
        throw new GenericDropDownListException("value", text);
    }
}