Add “Please select” message to databound dropdown list c#

So you have dropdown lists, populated with data from your data storage solution.  You need to prepend the lists with messages such as “Please select an option”.

 public void addMessageToDropdown(DropDownList whatDropdown, string ddmessage)
 {
    DropDownList list = whatDropdown as DropDownList;
    if(list != null)
    {
      list.Items.Insert(0, ddmessage);
    }
 
 }