Dropdown list in gridview

Thanks for your help. I figured out what was wrong. I was trying to update the wrong type of value. But because you ensured me that the code was right it helped me look for another reason why it wasn't working. Thanks for your replies..

Thanks for every ones replies unless I'm reading the tutorials wrong then I don't think they are the answer to my project. I don't want to populate the DropdownList from the database. I want to set the 3 options in theDropdownList manually. (as shown in code above) When I click the update button I would like to send the selected item into database. I'm using a SqlDataSource with a stored procedure. Everything works but I can't get the option chosen from the DropdownList into database unless I populate it from the database.