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() ...
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