October 27th, 2006Improved Fast Access to Small Lists On ASPX Pages
The article below has a minor improvement to the previous article listed on this web site. Specifically, the previous article used the DropDownList as a mechanism to actually retrieve the data for the purposes of storing it in a local Dictionary. This article simply calls the ObjectDataSource directly to retrieve an IEnumerable type and iterates over that. Below is article with the updates. (Original Article is: http://peterkellner.net/2006/08/30/smalllistaccess/)
Most data driven web sites have to manage lots of small lists. Examples include things like states, countries, levels, and even things like sex where you may only have two choices. (especially if you have internationalization issues). The simplest way to store this information is in static lists simply defined programatically. Below is an example of this.
