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Hi Everyone,

I am currently devleloping a web site in VB and ASP.Net...

I have got a dropdownlist box that contains a lot of centre names (being retrieved from an SQL Server database).

I want to end up so that a user selects the name from the dropdownlist, clicks to go on to the next page.

The next page then displays results from the database where the centre = the centre that was selected from the dropdownlist on the previous screen.

What would be the best way to accomplish this?

Would I be right in thinking that I need to set some sort of global variable that contains the value selected from the dropdownlist?

All help and advice will be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Dan

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There are two ways of doing it. You can add the variable to a session variable:

Session["variable"] = some variable

and then retrieve it in the page load of the next page.

variable = Session["variable"].ToString();

Or you can use POST or GET to include it in the request to the new page and then use the query string to extract it. Both are easy to implement.

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