System.Data.DataRowView in DropDownList

Question

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

Answer 1

You are seeing what the default implementation of DataRowView.ToString() does. To pick specific fields from within the DataRow to display, do something like this.

ddlMobile.DataSource = ds1.Tables["AllUser"];
ddlMobile.DataTextField = "CountryCode"; // This is text displayed
ddlMobile.DataValueField = "CountryCode"; // This is the value returned
ddlMobile.DataBind();