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Binding a Hashtable to a DropDownList Web Server Control

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When you need to bind a Hashtable to a DropDownList control, rather than iterating through all the items in the Hashtable, creating ListItem objects, and adding them to the Items collection of the DropDownList, simply use the Value and Key properties of the Hashtable to bind the data.

The following C# code shows how:

//Create and add some items to hashtableHashtable hashItems = new Hashtable();hashItems.Add("1", "Item1");hashItems.Add("2", "Item2");hashItems.Add("3", "Item3");hashItems.Add("4", "Item4");hashItems.Add("5", "Item5");//Bind hashItems to the DropDownList control ddlItemsddlItems.DataSource = hashItems;ddlItems.DataTextField = "Value";ddlItems.DataValueField = "Key";ddlItems.DataBind();

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