I am populating with an entitycollection from a function. Currently my code looks like this.

public IList populateDropDown_Pages()
{
     EntityCollection ec = new EntityCollection(new EntityFactory());
     adapter.FetchEntityCollection(adminPages, null, 0, sortExpression);    
     return adminPages;
}

The above code seems to work but i also need an empty value in the dropdown. Typically i would go ddl.Items.Insert(0, "something"), but in this case i don't have access to the control directly. Is there someway i can add an empty row to the collection instead?

Thanks Matt

Can you add the insert to the portion of your program that is calling this function? You can add an entity to a collection, but I would think that adding it directly to your dropdown would be a better solution since you can control where it is in your dropdown easier.