problems with DropDownList and ViewState

[Sheffield]

Greetings,

PROBLEM: I'm having difficulty removing a specific item from a DropDownList. In essence, I want to 'refresh' the DropDownList to exclude SelectedItems that have been deleted. Ideally, back to the first item in the list.

After successfully populating a DropDownList with the results from a database query AND then successfully deleting one of those records, I'm having difficulty removing that specific record I deleted from the DropDownList.

If I call the procedure that originally loaded the DropDownList, it will only ADD the new query results to the existing DropDownList items.

I thought I could set the

EnableViewState

property to FALSE right before the procedure call and then to TRUE immediately after, but it had no effect.

Any ideas for this ASP.net newbie?

Thanks

 

[jzelhart]

Add a Clear statement to the begining of the fill procedure.

Me.lstListing.Items.Clear()

Then you will refill with the new dataset.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Thanks - Jennifer

 

[BoulderBum]

If you're refreshing the data every time, you can simply leave the ViewState off.

Where do you call the remove function?

ddlMyList.Items.RemoveAt(/*some int index*/);