How to populate records to textbox & display part of that record in textbox using autocompleteextender.

Question

I have one textbox & autocompletextender . I have written method to populate Records (ID & name from particular table) to textbox. It works fine,but I want to know is it possible to populate records as combination of ID & name from particular table and after selecting that value, only ID should appear in textbox? If yes then how it will be possible, suggest some idea? Thank you.

Answer 1

Here is a great article on the subject http://www.codeproject.com/KB/ajax/autosuggestextender.aspx

A follow-up article explaining how to call an asynchronous server side auto post back event on a user's selection: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/webforms/PostbackAutoCompleteExten.aspx