Hello,

I have a combo box with a drop down template and listbox control inside it. I've populated the items in the listbox from a database table without problems (using VB code behind). My problems come when I need to set the selected value of the list box based on my data. Can anybody help?

Thanks

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply! I think I'm almost there. Unfortunately this sets the combo box with the code of the combo box item rather than the description. Other than retrieving the description of the item from the database and using that, is there a way I can set the combo box description using the code? I hope that makes sense?

Thanks

Apologies, I thought that didn't read too well.

Ok, so my listbox in my combo ooks like this:
<eo:ListBox ID="List_Rep" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource3" DataValueField="ID" DataTextField="Name"></eo:ListBox>

When I save the selected value of the combo, it saves the datavaluefield value (this is done in another page). When I try to set the value of the combo using this database value, it displays the datavaluefield instead of displaying the datatextfield.

e.g. if my listbox contains the following:
Datavaluefield Datatextfield
1 John
2 James
3 Fred

I'm saving the values 1,2,3 etc to the database but when I try to use this database value to set the value of the combo box on entry to my page, it still displays 1,2,3 instead of John,James,fred.

Does that make any more sense? Sorry, I'm not great at explaining these things.