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Add Countries in Your DropDownList Using WebService

Here is the code to add countries in your DropDownList using WebService.

Here I am using a webservice from http://www.webservicex.net and a link to the webservice used is http://www.webservicex.net/country.asmx.

In the .aspx page put a DropDownList as in the following:

<%@ 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/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

 

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head id="Head1" runat="server">

    <title></title>

</head>

<body>

    <form id="form2" runat="server">

    <div>

    <asp:DropDownList ID="drpCNT" runat="server"></asp:DropDownList>

    </div>

    </form>

</body>

</html>

Now to add the reference of your webservice, do following procedure:

  1. Open Solution Explorer, select your website and right-click and select "Add Web Reference"
  2. Now the following window will be opened, enter "http://www.webservicex.net/country.asmx" in the URL area that is circled in the image and press Enter.

    Country-DropDownList-1.jpg

  3. Now change Web reference name (optional) and click the "Add Reference" Button (circled in the image).

    Country-DropDownList-2.jpg

    After that it will create the following structure in Solution Explorer.

    Country-DropDownList-3.jpg
     
  4. Now put the following code in the .aspx.cs file (explained in code):
     

    using System;

    using System.Collections.Generic;

    using System.Linq;

    using System.Web;

    using System.Web.UI;

    using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

    using System.Xml;

    using System.Text;

     

    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page

    {

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            if (IsPostBack == false)

            {

                //get reference of your webservice

                myservice.country ct = new myservice.country();

     

                // str is an XML String which will hold all the countries in xml format

                string str = ct.GetCountries();

     

                // add first item in dropdownlist

                drpCNT.Items.Add("-Select-");

     

                //Create an XML Document and load your XML

                XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

                doc.LoadXml(str);

     

                //Get your nodes, here our node in Table because webservice will give us following format

                // http://www.webservicex.net/country.asmx/GetCountries

                XmlNodeList nodes = doc.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("//Table");

     

                //Iterates for xml nodes and add them in dropdownlist

                foreach (XmlNode node in nodes)

                {

                    drpCNT.Items.Add(node["Name"].InnerText);

                }

            }

     

        }

    } 
     

  5. Finally you will get all the countries in your DropDownList.

    Country-DropDownList-4.jpg 


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