ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Using Text and Value Pairs with the AutoCompleteExtender

In the previous two sections, you saw how you can use the AutoComplete control to display suggestions as you enter text into a TextBox control. For example, you saw how you can display matching movie titles as you type. After entering a title in TextBox, you might want to retrieve the entire movie database record.

However, you run into a problem here. The GetSuggestions() method retrieves the movie titles from the database and not the movie IDs. You need the movie ID to do a lookup for the matching movie database record. You need some way of retrieving both the movie title and movie ID when using the AutoComplete control.

The AutoComplete control includes a static method named CreateAutoCompleteItem() ...