Frederik Vig – ASP.NET developer

<asp:DropDownList runat="server" ID="ddlCategories">
    <asp:ListItem>Please choose</asp:ListItem>
</asp:DropDownList>

protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
{
	base.OnLoad(e);
 
	string[] categories = new[] { "C#", "ASP.NET", "EPiServer", "Umbraco", "jQuery" };
 
	ddlCategories.DataSource = categories;
	ddlCategories.DataBind();
}

 <select name="ctl00$MainContent$ddlCategories" id="MainContent_ddlCategories">
	<option value="C#">C#</option>
	<option value="ASP.NET">ASP.NET</option>
	<option value="EPiServer">EPiServer</option>
	<option value="Umbraco">Umbraco</option>
	<option value="jQuery">jQuery</option>
</select>

protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
{
	base.OnLoad(e);
 
	...
	ddlCategories.AppendDataBoundItems = true;
	...
}

<select name="ctl00$MainContent$ddlCategories" id="MainContent_ddlCategories">
	<option value="Please choose">Please choose</option>
	<option value="C#">C#</option>
	<option value="ASP.NET">ASP.NET</option>
	<option value="EPiServer">EPiServer</option>
	<option value="Umbraco">Umbraco</option>
	<option value="jQuery">jQuery</option>
</select>