How to get the last option value from a DropDownList?

Question

I have a DropDownList with the following options:

o select
1 hot
2 cold
3 warm

How can I get the last option value ("warm") from the DropDownList?

Answer 1

Assuming that you have a variable referenced to your DropDownList:

if (myDropDownList.Items.Count > 0)
{
    string myValue = myDropDownList.Items[myDropDownList.Items.Count - 1].Value;
}

Note that you should probably check that the DropDownList has items first, or else this will throw an IndexOutOfBounds exception when the list is empty. Thanks @Cylon.

Answer 2

var last = cmbMyList.Items.OfType<ListItem>().LastOrDefault();

(Thanks to Cylon Cat for correcting me)

Very Simple