Re: Populating a dropdown listbox problem!

Interesting.. I took the example straight from the book!! It appears to be a
flaw in code or I missed a line somewhere even though I know i doubled
checked prior to sending the email..

Thanks for the response!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Lee" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: June 19, 2002 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Populating a dropdown listbox problem!


> Well it's because the add method requires a listitem object and not a
> string...here
>
> If you're not using data binding and want a quick fix add this after the
> first { in your while loop
>
>                 ListItem li = new ListItem();
>
>                         li.Value = sEmployClass;
>                         li.Text = sEmployClass;
>
>                         ddemployeeClassification.Items.Add(li);
>
> There's more that could be done, but this should fix your problem for
> now!
>
> Wayne Lee
> Evident Systems Ltd
> This email has been scanned with Norton AntiVirus 2002
>
>
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> Subject: [DOTNET] Populating a dropdown listbox problem!
>
>
> How do I use my datareader object to populate a dropdownlistbox??? Im
> getting conversion type errors..?????? here is the code
>
> string myConnection = "........";
> string mySelectQuery = "select employee_class_name from
> onlinetime_empclass "; OleDbConnection myConn = new
> OleDbConnection(myConnection); OleDbCommand objCommand = new
> OleDbCommand(mySelectQuery, myConn); OleDbDataReader objDataReader =
> null; myConn.Open(); objDataReader = objCommand.ExecuteReader(); string
> sEmployClass = ""; while (objDataReader.Read() == true)
>     {
>         *sEmployClass = objDataReader["employee_class_name"];
>        ddemployeeClassification.Items.Add(sEmployClass);
> }
> I get an error when i try to view in a browsers:
>
> *Compiler Error Message: CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type 'object'
> to 'string'
>
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