Choose Country corresponding state list appears

Satyapriya Nayak
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choose Country corresponding state

In this Blog we will know, when we choose a Country from a dropdownlist its corresponding state list appears in another dropdownlist. For that we drag and drop two dropdownlist from the toolbox and place those controls into the webpage.

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Default.aspx code

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default"
%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml
/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
    <br />
     <asp:Label ID="Label3" runat="server" Text="Country" Width="100px"></asp:Label>
      <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList_country" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True"
            onselectedindexchanged="DropDownList_country_SelectedIndexChanged">
    </asp:DropDownList>
        <br />
    <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text="State" Width="100px"></asp:Label>
    <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList_state" runat="server">
    </asp:DropDownList>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Default.aspx.cs code

using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    string strConnString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionString"].ConnectionString;
    string str;
    SqlCommand com;
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(strConnString);
        if (!IsPostBack)
        {
            DropDownList_country.Items.Add("Choose country");
            con.Open();
            str = "select country from area group by country";
            com = new SqlCommand(str, con);
            SqlDataReader reader = com.ExecuteReader();
            while (reader.Read())
            {
                DropDownList_country.Items.Add(reader["country"].ToString());
          }
            reader.Close();
            con.Close();
        }
        DropDownList_state.Items.Clear();
    }
    protected void DropDownList_country_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(strConnString);
        con.Open();
        str = "select * from area where country='" + DropDownList_country.SelectedItem.Text + "'";
        com = new SqlCommand(str, con);
        SqlDataReader reader = com.ExecuteReader();
        while (reader.Read())
        {
           DropDownList_state.Items.Add(reader["state"].ToString());
}
        reader.Close();
        con.Close();
    }
}