title: Populating a dropdownlist control along with "Please select a value" option
body: <p>I am populating a dropdownlist control from a database. That happes fine, however, when I display the dropdown at runtime, I want the first visible option to be "Please select a faculty member" (which would be option value 0).
  How can I accomplish that?</p>
  
  <pre><code>                    SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(strConn);
                  string sqlFacultyMember = "usp_GetFacultyMember";
                  SqlCommand cmdFacultyMember = new SqlCommand(sqlFacultyMember, con);
                  cmdFacultyMember.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
                  con.Open();
  
                  SqlDataAdapter ada = new SqlDataAdapter(cmdFacultyMember);
                  DataSet ds = new DataSet();
                  ada.Fill(ds);
  
                      ddlFacultyMember.DataSource = ds;
                      ddlFacultyMember.DataValueField = "UserID";
                      ddlFacultyMember.DataTextField = "FullName";
                      ddlFacultyMember.DataBind();
  </code></pre>