SelectedValue which is invalid because it does not exist in the list of items

Question

I encounter this problem repeatedly, and haven't a clue what is causing it. I get an exception in the DataBind: SelectedValue which is invalid because it does not exist in the list of items.

Here are some important pieces of information:

1. I reload listOrgs periodically when the underlying data has changed.
   
2. The Organization.DTListAll call returns 2 Int, String pairs.
3. There are no duplicate or null values in the returned data
4. After the first two lines below, listOrgs.Items.Count is 0, and the Selected Value is 0
5. The selected value after the DataBind operation executes is the ID value from the first row in the data
6. This exception happens the very first time this code is executed after a fresh page load

listOrgs.Items.Clear(); 
listOrgs.SelectedValue = "0"; 
listOrgs.DataSource = new Organization().DTListAll(SiteID); 
listOrgs.DataTextField = "OrganizationName"; 
listOrgs.DataValueField = "OrganizationID"; 
listOrgs.DataBind();

Answer 1

Apparently the solution I posted wasn't entirely effective... Eventually in my application I changed to this:

listOrgs.Items.Clear();
listOrgs.SelectedIndex = -1;
listOrgs.SelectedValue = null;
listOrgs.ClearSelection();     // Clears the selection to avoid the exception (only one of these should be enough but in my application I needed all..)
listOrgs.DataSource = new Organization().DTListAll(SiteID);
listOrgs.DataTextField = "OrganizationName"; 
listOrgs.DataValueField = "OrganizationID"; 
listOrgs.DataBind();

Answer 2

I kept getting this error.
Weird thing is that before I set the datasource and rebind after deleting an item the selected index = -1.

If I explicitly set the selectedIndex = -1; then it works and doesn't throw an error.

So even though it was already -1 setting it to -1 stops it from erroring.

Weird eh?

Answer 3

Try setting listOrgs.SelectedValue = "0" after you refresh the DataSource

At the moment you are trying to select the first item in an empty list.