Thursday, 2 January 2014

Cascading Dropdown List for Country/State/City in ASP.Net using Entity Framework

Cascading Dropdown List for Country/State/City in ASP.Net using Entity Framework

In this blog I am going to show how we can work with cascading dropdown list for country/state/city in asp.net using Entity Framework.

Create three tables as per our need:
 
CREATE TABLE country
  (
     countryID     INT NOT NULL,
     countryName   varchar(50) NOT NULL,
     PRIMARY KEY (countryID ),
  );
CREATE TABLE state
  (
 stateID     INT NOT NULL,
 countryID INT NOTNULL,
 stateName   varchar(50) NOT NULL,
 PRIMARY KEY (stateID ),
 FOREIGN KEY (countryID ) REFERENCES country (countryID));

CREATE TABLE city
  (
cityID     INT NOT NULL,
 stateID INT NOTNULL,
 cityName   varchar(50) NOT NULL,
 PRIMARY KEY (cityID),
 FOREIGN KEY (stateID) REFERENCES state (stateID));

First create an empty web application




Add model as per we did in earlier for entity framework do the necessary






Add a web page to the solution and copy paste this in .aspx page
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="cascading.aspx.cs" Inherits="counrtybasedropdown.cascading" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <center>
            <h3>
                Cascading DropDownList for Country/State/City in ASP.Net</h3>
            <table>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        Select a Country :
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlCountry" runat="server" AutoPostBack="true" OnSelectedIndexChanged="ddlCountry_SelectedIndexChanged">
                        </asp:DropDownList>
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        Select a State :
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlState" runat="server" Enabled="false" AutoPostBack="true"
                            OnSelectedIndexChanged="ddlState_SelectedIndexChanged">
                       < /asp:DropDownList>
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        Select a City :
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlCity" runat="server" Enabled="false">
                        </asp:DropDownList>
                    </td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </center>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
Your .aspx.cs should be as follows
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace counrtybasedropdown
{
    public partial class cascading : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        Database1Entities dbEntity = new Database1Entities();

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (!IsPostBack)
            {
                var country = from c in dbEntity.countries select new { c.countryID, c.countryName };
                ddlCountry.DataSource = country.ToList();
                ddlCountry.DataValueField = "countryID";
                ddlCountry.DataTextField = "countryName";
                ddlCountry.DataBind();
                ddlCountry.Items.Insert(0, "--Select--");
            }
        }

        protected void ddlCountry_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            int countyID = Convert.ToInt16(ddlCountry.SelectedValue.ToString());
            var state = from s in dbEntity.states where s.countryID.Equals(countyID) select new { s.stateID, s.stateName };
            ddlState.DataSource = state.ToList();
            ddlState.Enabled = true;
            ddlState.DataValueField = "stateID";
            ddlState.DataTextField = "stateName";
            ddlState.DataBind();
            ddlState.Items.Insert(0, "--Select--");
        }

        protected void ddlState_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            int stateID = Convert.ToInt16(ddlState.SelectedValue.ToString());
            var city = from c in dbEntity.cities where c.stateID.Equals(stateID) select new { c.cityID, c.cityName };
            ddlCity.DataSource = city.ToList();
            ddlCity.Enabled = true;
            ddlCity.DataValueField = "cityID";
            ddlCity.DataTextField = "cityName";
            ddlCity.DataBind();
            ddlCity.Items.Insert(0, "--Select--");
        }
    }
}

Happy coding..

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