In this blog we will know when selected any item from the
dropdown list all records related to this will be displayed in a grid view
without refreshing the whole webpage.
 
Table Creation
 
Create table Contacts (id varchar(50),name varchar(50),city
varchar(50))
 
<%@ Page
Language="C#"
AutoEventWireup="true"  CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled
Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
    <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server">
    </asp:ScriptManager>
   
        <asp:UpdatePanel ID="up1" runat="server">
           <ContentTemplate >
           <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Choose Name" BackColor="#FFFF99" 
                   ForeColor="Red" Width="100px"></asp:Label>
                   
               <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" 
                   onselectedindexchanged="DropDownList1_SelectedIndexChanged" >
               </asp:DropDownList>
        </ContentTemplate>
 
      <Triggers>
       <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID
="DropDownList1" />
      </Triggers>
   </asp:UpdatePanel>
        <br /> 
 
  <asp:UpdatePanel ID="up2" runat="server">      
     <ContentTemplate >
    <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server">
    </asp:GridView>
    
       
     </ContentTemplate>
     <Triggers >
      <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID
="GridView1" />
        </Triggers>
     </asp:UpdatePanel>
        <br /> 
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
 
 
using System;
using
System.Configuration;
using
System.Data;
using
System.Linq;
using
System.Web;
using
System.Web.Security;
using
System.Web.UI;
using
System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using
System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using
System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using
System.Xml.Linq;
using
System.Data.SqlClient;
public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    string
connStr = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionString"].ConnectionString;
    SqlDataAdapter
ad = new SqlDataAdapter();
    SqlCommand
cmd = new SqlCommand();
    SqlDataAdapter
sqlda;
    DataSet
ds;
    string str;
   
    protected void DropDownList1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs
e)
    {
        SqlConnection
conn = new SqlConnection(connStr);
        conn.Open();
        str = "select
* from Contacts where name like '" + DropDownList1.SelectedValue + "'";
        cmd = new
SqlCommand(str, conn);
        sqlda = new
SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
        ds = new
DataSet();
        sqlda.Fill(ds, "Contacts");
        conn.Close();
        GridView1.DataSource = ds;
        GridView1.DataMember = "Contacts";
        GridView1.DataBind();
    }
    protected void Page_Load(object
sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        SqlConnection
con = new SqlConnection(connStr);
        if
(!IsPostBack)
        {
            DropDownList1.Items.Add("Choose name");
            con.Open();
            str = "select
name from Contacts";
            cmd = new
SqlCommand(str, con);
            SqlDataReader
reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
            while
(reader.Read())
            {
                DropDownList1.Items.Add(reader["name"].ToString());
            }
            reader.Close();
            con.Close();
        }
    }
}