ASP.NET Dynamic data Change text field to dropdown and populate with some data

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I have an ASP.NET dynamic data site and for one of the text fields within Edit and Insert templates I'd like to covert it to dropdown and populate that drop down programmatically. Can you help or point into right direction ?

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Wizzard · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-30 18:35:24Z

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Have a look at these samples on my blog: The Anatomy of a FieldTemplate. Your First FieldTemplate. An Advanced FieldTemplate. A Second Advanced FieldTemplate.

answered May 30, 2009 at 18:35

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Aaron Hoffman · Accepted Answer · 2009-06-17 21:59:20Z

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What you will need to do is create a Custom FieldTemplate and use the UIHint Attribute on the column/property to direct ASP.NET Dynamic Data to use that Custom FieldTemplate in Insert and Edit mode.

see here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.dataannotations.uihintattribute.aspx

and here: http://www.asp.net/learn/3.5-SP1/

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Sérgio Amaral · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-17 04:19:21Z

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There is a easier way to do that, by simply creating in a partial class separated from the code generated by EF, with the atribute:

[DisplayColumn("columnName")]
public partial class Product{}

Hope it will be helpful for future references.

answered Dec 17, 2010 at 4:19

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