I am trying to populate a dropdown using values from a column. Now the problem is: I am not getting the actual values (the country codes like India(+61)) in the dropdown. In
You should set the DataValueField and DataTextField Properties of the drop down.
ddlMobile.DataSource = ds1.Tables["AUser"];
ddlMobile.DataValueField = "CountryCode";
ddlMobile.DataTextField = "CountryName";
ddlMobile.DataBind();
Here CountryCode and CountryName must be the column names corresponding to those values in your DataRow