bind Dictionary to DropDownList

[John Grandy]

Is it possible to bind a Dictionary to a DropDownList ?

The most obvious code fails :

Dictionary<string,string> dictionary = new Dictionary<string,string>

dictionary.Add("Name1","Value1");
//add some more items ...

DropDownList.DataSource = dictionary;
DropDownList.DataBind();

The dropdown displays items such as "[Name1,Value1]" , etc.

 

[Guest]

If you are talking about an ASP.NET dropdownlist, probably should have posted
in the ASP.NET group instead. But here goes:

DropDownList1.DataSource = dictionary;
DropDownList1.DataTextField = "Key";
DropDownList1.DataValueField = "Value";
DropDownList1.DataBind();
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[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

John,

Why not bind to the keys or values? This will give you single values
that you can bind to the list.