How to add a default “Select” option to this ASP.NET DropDownList control?

Question

I am a new ASP.NET developer and I am trying to learn Linq-To-Entities. I am trying to bind a DropDownList with the Linq statement for retrieving the list of status in the S

Answer 1

Although it is quite an old question, another approach is to change AppendDataBoundItems property. So the code will be: