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

The reason it is not working is because you are adding an item to the list and then overriding the whole list with a new DataSource which will clear and re-populate your list, losing the first manually added item.

So, you need to do this in reverse like this:

Status status = new Status();
DropDownList1.DataSource = status.getData();
DropDownList1.DataValueField = "ID";
DropDownList1.DataTextField = "Description";
DropDownList1.DataBind();

// Then add your first item
DropDownList1.Items.Insert(0, "Select");