gridview and combobox

[24sharon]

I have 2 questions

1. in my gridview how am I change the column width, I want to write the width to each column.

here is my code:

<Columns >
              <asp:BoundField DataField="courseID" HeaderText="קוד" ReadOnly="True" SortExpression="courseID" />
              <asp:BoundField DataField="areaName" HeaderText="אזור" SortExpression="areaName" />
              <asp:BoundField DataField="dayWeek" HeaderText="ימים בשבוע" SortExpression="dayWeek" />
              <asp:BoundField DataField="place" HeaderText="מקום" SortExpression="place"  />
              <asp:BoundField DataField="lecturer" HeaderText="מרצה" SortExpression="lecturer" />
              <asp:BoundField DataField="subject" HeaderText="נושא ההרצאה" SortExpression="subject" />
              <asp:BoundField DataField="destination" HeaderText="קהל יעד" SortExpression="destination" />
              <asp:BoundField DataField="bigTime" HeaderText="עיתוי" SortExpression="bigTime" />
              <asp:BoundField DataField="smallTime" HeaderText="שעה" SortExpression="smallTime" />
              <asp:BoundField DataField="oneTime" HeaderText="תדירות" SortExpression="oneTime" />
              <asp:BoundField DataField="category" HeaderText="קטגוריה" SortExpression="category" />
            </Columns>

2 in combobox

<asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server" Width="144px" OnSelectedIndexChanged="DropDownList1_SelectedIndexChanged" >
             <asp:ListItem Value = 0>aaaa</asp:ListItem>
             <asp:ListItem Value = 1>bbbb</asp:ListItem>

when I write DropDownList1.text I got the value ( 0 or 1)
how can I get the text write "aaaa" or "bbbb"

thanks!

[RobDog888]

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