how to populate dropdown box in gridview in edit mode?

i have loaded input country dropdown at the time of data insertion. Select.. Af开发者_开发百科ghanistan Aland Islands Albania Algeria

now i m showing that data in gridview and want to edit that data too. for that i need to populate that whole list of country again. how to do that?

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Hope this helps:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/webforms/editable_gridview_control.aspx

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Fill your DropDownList control in the DridView.RowDataBound event.

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This sounds like an asp.net question. You can load the data on the control's Load() event. Just add the event and when it fires, load the data for it.