I've been working on this and haven't quite gotten it to work yet so I thought that I would run it by the forum to see what I was missing. Before I did I did a search to see if someone else had been dealing with this issue and the closest I got did get me
to the point that I inserted a value into my list and seemed to get it to the top eventually after a refresh but not all of the code worked right. I'm using VS 2015
Here is what I put in my method:
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
DropDownList1.Items.Insert(0, "Select!")
DropDownList1.SelectedIndex = 0
This is what I had to remove from the example that I had found here in the forums that simply would not be accepted by VS 2015:
DropDownList1.Items[0].Value = "-1"
That line sat between the two other drop down lists lines above but VS2015 objected to that pi ...
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