There are a lot of examples in .Net framework documentation that shows how to use DropDownList control for displaying data in a drop down list. Almost all the examples demonstrate populating the list using hard coded values or ListItem controls.

<asp:DropDownList ID="NameDropDown" Runat="server">
	<asp:ListItem>Source</asp:ListItem>
	<asp:ListItem>Code</asp:ListItem>
</asp:DropDownList>
										

But sometime you ned to populate the list dynamically depending on if you have any data for the list or not. And in some cases you may need to append more items to hard coded list items. The following code shows you how to achieve this.

[aspx]
<asp:DropDownList ID="NameDropDown" Runat="server">
</asp:DropDownList>
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[C#]
protected DataTable m_DataTable = null;
								
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
	if (!IsPostBack)
	{
		// Initialize DropDown List
		m_DataTable = this.CreateDataTable();
		this.InitializeNameDropDown(m_DataTable);
	}
}

private void InitializeNameDropDown(DataTable dtTable)
{
	int nTotalRecords = dtTable.Rows.Count;
	for (int i = 0; i < nTotalRecords; i++)
	{
		NameDropDown.Items.Add(dtTable.Rows[i]["Title"].ToString());
	}
}
										

If you have some hard coded ListItems added to the list, then the dynamically added items get appended at the end of the list.