selecting value from dropdownlist.

Thank you Suman, It worked.

I like your answer better, I cant say I have used that way before, but I will certainly look into it... :)

When it comes to web forms, you have viewstate to contend with. The hardest thing to realize is that before your events, "listitemadded" (if it existed), the Page_load event has to fire. To get the currently selected item, you use: dropdownlist.SelectedItem.Value (or Text depending on what you want). To set an item selected you would use what I stated in the last post: dropdownlist.Items.FindByValue(MyStringValue).Selected = true; You don't need to reload the dropdownlist because it's bound to viewstate. Don't loop to get values from a dropdownlist! You have so many better methods that are all based on retrieving data via the options from System.Object.GetHashCode(). Why loop through items when a hash has already been established for you? Use things like dropdown.Items.FindByText or FindByValue.

I assume this is deffinetly for web forms (win forms handle dropdownlist a bit different) so would it make sense to add the item to the db.. refresh the dropdownlist and then set the selected to the value you just added example add record to db... get the id/uniquevalue reload dropdownlist set selected item where dropdonwlist.Items[n].value (You wil have to loop through the list to get a match) is this sort of what you are trying to do... just simpler?