Published:
04 Dec 2007
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Abstract
In this article, Steve demonstrates how to bind a DropDownList to an Enum type, and then goes on to create a generic EnumDropDownList control which will automatically display any enum type's contents. |
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by Steven Smith
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A fairly common task in some of the applications I work with
is to provide a user with a DropDownList of options that is populated by an
enum. This can easily be done with a little bit of code to bind a stock
DropDownList control to the enum, but this kind of thing quickly starts to
violate the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle, so I created a simple
derived DropDownList control that takes advantage of Generics to make it
especially effective and require less code and casting of data types.
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Title:
Great
Name:
Suraj
Date:
12/4/2008 1:30:52 AM
Comment:
great helped immensly
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Title:
Great
Name:
Willy AF
Date:
2/2/2008 10:01:36 PM
Comment:
Great work, I will wait for the next trick, Very helpful,,,
Thanks
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Greate tips
Name:
nguyen letan
Date:
2/2/2008 7:31:09 AM
Comment:
Your article is very helpful for me. Thanks!
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Great Trick
Name:
s.k.shivaprasad
Date:
1/31/2008 4:47:50 AM
Comment:
Great work. I spent a lot of time trying to figure this out myself. It is kind of annoying that ASP.NET doesn't support declared generic controls. That would be a great improvement.good...
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Great Article
Name:
Joydip
Date:
12/10/2007 12:39:26 PM
Comment:
Hi Steve, this is an excellent article. This will help the readers a lot. Awesome!
Thanks,
Joydip
Author, Data Presentation Controls Essentials (PacktPub)
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Really useful
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Uday D
Date:
12/5/2007 3:42:07 AM
Comment:
Very helpful link. Thanks.
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Title:
Great Trick
Name:
Brendan
Date:
12/4/2007 9:53:13 AM
Comment:
Great work. I spent a lot of time trying to figure this out myself. It is kind of annoying that ASP.NET doesn't support declared generic controls. That would be a great improvement.
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