drop-down menus and asp

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Is there a way to create a drop-down menu, that will import its items
from a text file? The idea being, that rather than going into the
code and manually updating the drop-down menu properties each time,
the text file can just be replaced and the next time the page is
loaded, the new items will appear correctly?
 
Is there a way to create a drop-down menu, that will import its items
from a text file? The idea being, that rather than going into the
code and manually updating the drop-down menu properties each time,
the text file can just be replaced and the next time the page is
loaded, the new items will appear correctly?
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Simple answer is yes.

If the text file is structured to resemble a datatable, you can interface
with it using OleDb:
http://www.connectionstrings.com/?carrier=textfile

Alternatively, an XML document is just a text file structured in a
particular way, so you could go down that route...
 
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