Web User Control - Variable Values

[adalli]

Hi,

I created a Web User Control with just a dropdown, listing a number of countries. One of the properties is DefaultValue to which I would like send a country to be displayed.

If I remove the quotes from strCountry, I get the error "Attribute values must be enclosed in quotation marks"


Dim strCountry as String = "Country 1".

<CountriesDropDown:CountriesDropDown ID="ddCountry" runat="server"
Width="216"
IsReadOnly ="false"
DefaultValue=strCountry
/>

Can anyone please help?

Thanks

 

[jbenson001]

DefaultValue is not a property of the dropdownlist.
You need to do this in your code behind.:

Dim strCountry as String = "Country 1"
DropDownList1.SelectedValue = strCountry
OR this:
DropDownList1.Items.FindByValue(strCountry ).Selected = True

 

[adalli]

Yes you are right. I created DefaultValue as a property in order to be able to set the country value I want to display.