I have a dropdown which will bind all the countries to it i need to add select and bind all the countries from database along with select as first value in dropdown. If you need StoreID its StoreID="stCountries" <ext:ComponentColumn runat="server"> <Items> <ext:DropDownField runat="server" ID="ddlCountries" SingleSelect="true" DisplayField="countryNames"></ext:DropDownField> </Items> <Listeners></Listeners> <Component></Component> </ext:ComponentColumn>