dashCommerce

I have a dropdown list containing the manufacturers and it is being loaded like this:

   private void LoadManufacturer () {
      ManufacturerCollection manufacturerCollection = new ManufacturerController().FetchAll();
      manufacturerCollection.OrderByAsc(Manufacturer.Columns.Name);
      ddlManufacturer.DataSource = manufacturerCollection;
      ddlManufacturer.DataTextField = Manufacturer.Columns.Name;
      ddlManufacturer.DataValueField = Manufacturer.Columns.ManufacturerId;
      ddlManufacturer.DataBind();
    }

After the user selects the Manufacturer and clicks on a button,  I need to programmatically get the CreatedBy value from the selected Manufacturer and store it in a string.  I know it is in the Manufacturer object within the ManufacturerCollection that the list is bound to but I have no idea how to access it.  Can anyone give me an example of how to get the value?

Thanks! 

First you would get the data like this.

   private void LoadManufacturer () {
      ManufacturerCollection manufacturerCollection = new ManufacturerCollection();
      manufacturerCollection.OrderByAsc(Manufacturer.Columns.Name).Load();//The OrderByAsc has to called before you get the items from the DB
...
...

    }

(I think the only way you can access it is if you store it in the ViewState or SessionState)
But what I think you should do is something like this
Manufacturer manufacturer = new Manufacturer(ddlManufacturer.SelectedItem.Value);//This will get the info from the DB