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

This works in Web

ListItem li=new ListItem(); 

li.Text="Stringxyz";
li.Value="Stringxyz";       // Create object of item first and find its index.

DropDownList1.SelectedIndex = DropDownList1.Items.IndexOf(li);

This also works fine.