Simple Autocomplete Combo

[Mark Treveil]

Guys,
I am trying to decide the best way to implement a traditional dropdown list box with auto-complete. The items in the dropdown are determined when the page is displayed and don't change.

To be honest, what I want is essentially what the new tag

[Meena]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for using Syncfusion products.

Your requirement of sending the data list of AutoCompleteTextBox with the initial page without Http post could be achieved by enabling the DataSource property of the AutoCompleteTextBox. Please refer the below code snippet,

[Controller]
public ActionResult Index()
        {
            AutocompleteTextBoxModel myModel = new AutocompleteTextBoxModel();
            Northwind context = SqlCE;
            var dataSource = from suggestion in context.Customers
                             select suggestion.CustomerID;
            myModel.DataSource = dataSource;
            ViewData["myAutocomplete"] = myModel;
            return View();
        }

The DataSource property is used to fetch the data list without HttpPost.

ClientDataFetch is a feature of AutoComplete which is used to filter the data list from client side without any post.

We have created a simple sample with AutoComplete for your convenience and it can be downloaded from the below link.

AutoCompleteTextBox.zip

Please let us know if you have any other concerns.

Regards,
Meena