title: populate dropdownlist
body: <p>Hi i need to populate a dropdownlist. I designed a datasource and assigned it to dropdownlist. The dropdown populated correctly. But the problem is that i need to add a default value say "default" at the starting of the dropdownlist( and this value default is not in the database.</p>
  
  <p>I did this :</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;asp:DropDownList ID="classInstructor" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource3" 
                  DataTextField="InstrName" DataValueField="InstrName"&gt;
  
          &lt;asp:ListItem Value="Default" Text="Default" Selected="True"&gt;&lt;/asp:ListItem&gt;
  
  
          &lt;/asp:DropDownList&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But default doesn't show up on dropdown. Probably, the way i did was wrong. Can u let me know the best way to handle this. </p>