I am having trouble getting a TextBox with AutoCompleteExtender to populate other fields after a selection has been made. If I try the same thing with a DropDownList (changing the control names where appropriate to point to the DDL instead of TextBox) it works perfectly.
<asp:TextBox runat="server"
ID="Top_Site_NumTextBox"
Size="6"
AutoPostBack="true"
AppendDataBoundItems="true"
DataTextField="Site_Num"
DataValueField="Site_Num"
DataSourceID="SqlDataSourceSite"
OnSelectedIndexChanged="Top_Site_NumTextBox_SelectedIndexChanged"
Text='<%# Bind("Top_Site_Num") %>' />
<asp:AutoCompleteExtender
runat="server"
BehaviorID="AutoCompleteEx"
ID="autoComplete1"
TargetControlID="Top_Site_NumTextBox"
ServicePath="WebService.asmx"
ServiceMethod="GetSiteNum"
MinimumPrefixLength="2"
CompletionInterval="1000"
EnableCaching="true"
CompletionSetCount="20"
DelimiterCharacters=";, :"
ShowOnlyCurrentWordInCompletionListItem="true" >
<Animations>
<OnShow>
<Sequence>
<%-- Make the completion list transparent and then show it --%>
<OpacityAction Opacity="0" />
<HideAction Visible="true" />
<%--Cache the original size of the completion list the first time the animation is played and then set it to zero --%>
<ScriptAction Script="
// Cache the size and setup the initial size
var behavior = $find('AutoCompleteEx');
if (!behavior._height) {
var target = behavior.get_completionList();
behavior._height = target.offsetHeight - 2;
target.style.height = '0px';
}" />
<%-- Expand from 0px to the appropriate size while fading in --%>
<Parallel Duration=".4">
<FadeIn />
<Length PropertyKey="height" StartValue="0" EndValueScript="$find('AutoCompleteEx')._height" />
</Parallel>
</Sequence>
</OnShow>
<OnHide>
<%-- Collapse down to 0px and fade out --%>
<FadeOut />
<Length PropertyKey="height" StartValueScript="$find('AutoCompleteEx')._height" EndValue="0" />
</OnHide>
</Animations>
</asp:AutoCompleteExtender>
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Web.Services.Protocols;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Web.Services;
namespace Project_Review
{
public partial class ProjectReviewAdd : System.Web.UI.Page
string strConnString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["Tesseract"].ConnectionString;
string str;
SqlCommand com;
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
TextBox Top_Site_NumTextBox = FormViewAdd.FindControl("Top_Site_NumTextBox") as TextBox;
Top_Site_NumTextBox.AutoPostBack = true;
SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(strConnString);
if (!IsPostBack)
con.Open();
str = "select Site_Num, Site_Name, Site_Address, Site_County, Site_Post_Code, Cust_Cust_Ref from SCSite, SCCust where Site_Cust_Num = Cust_Num order by Site_Num";
com = new SqlCommand(str, con);
SqlDataReader reader = com.ExecuteReader();
while (reader.Read())
Top_Site_NumTextBox.ToString();
}
reader.Close();
con.Close();
private void clear()
TextBox Top_Site_NameTextBox = FormViewAdd.FindControl("Top_Site_NameTextBox") as TextBox;
TextBox Top_Site_AddressTextBox = FormViewAdd.FindControl("Top_Site_AddressTextBox") as TextBox;
TextBox Top_Site_CountyTextBox = FormViewAdd.FindControl("Top_Site_CountyTextBox") as TextBox;
TextBox Top_Site_PostcodeTextBox = FormViewAdd.FindControl("Top_Site_PostcodeTextBox") as TextBox;
TextBox Top_CustTextBox = FormViewAdd.FindControl("Top_CustTextBox") as TextBox;
Top_Site_NameTextBox.Text = "";
Top_Site_AddressTextBox.Text = "";
Top_Site_CountyTextBox.Text = "";
Top_Site_PostcodeTextBox.Text = "";
Top_CustTextBox.Text = "";
protected void Top_Site_NumTextBox_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
clear();
str = "select Site_Num, Site_Name, Site_Address, Site_County, Site_Post_Code, Cust_Cust_Ref from SCSite, SCCust where Site_Cust_Num = Cust_Num AND Site_Num='" + Top_Site_NumTextBox.Text + "'";
Top_Site_NameTextBox.Text = reader["Site_Name"].ToString();
Top_Site_AddressTextBox.Text = reader["Site_Address"].ToString();
Top_Site_CountyTextBox.Text = reader["Site_County"].ToString();
Top_Site_PostcodeTextBox.Text = reader["Site_Post_Code"].ToString();
Top_CustTextBox.Text = reader["Cust_Cust_Ref"].ToString();
WEBSERVICE.ASMX (for the AutoCompleteExtender)
namespace ProjectReview.ProjectReview
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for WebService
/// </summary>
[WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]
[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
// To allow this Web Service to be called from script, using ASP.NET AJAX, uncomment the following line.
[System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]
public class WebService : System.Web.Services.WebService
public WebService()
//Uncomment the following line if using designed components
//InitializeComponent();
[WebMethod]
public List<string> GetSiteNum(string prefixText, int count)
SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["Tesseract"].ToString());
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("select Site_Num from SCSite where Site_Num like @Site_Num+'%' ORDER BY Site_Num", con);
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Site_Num", prefixText);
SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
da.Fill(dt);
List<string> Site_Num = new List<string>();
for (int i = 0; i < dt.Rows.Count; i++)
Site_Num.Add(dt.Rows[i][0].ToString());
return Site_Num;