Heya Nancy,

PMFJI here ... I've barely used ASP.NET, so I'm not much of an expert in this area ... but I've gotta ask this: wouldn't it be easier to populate a DataSet with a DataAdapter and populate your Dropdown from the DataSet instead of using a DataReader? It's easy to persist the DataSet between postbacks.

~~Bonnie


>David-
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>I almost didn't see your reply since you replied to Çetin.
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>>Agreed. contractors.ContractorsList should go into session,
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>It is.
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>>not control.
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>Desperation (see my other reply to Çetin).
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>>Enableviewstate should be on for the dropdown control.
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>It was. I should have specified so, but I didn't want to bog down the post.
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>Have you used a dropdown in a similar circumstance on a webform? If so, how did you persist the list's values, if I may ask? TIA.