Ajax autocomplete extender and get ID of selected item?
For this you need to return the list from web service method with ID and Text
Here "lst" is the actual list with data from your data source.
List<string> items = new List<string>(count);
for (int i = 0; i < lst.Count; i++)
{
string str =AjaxControlToolkit.AutoCompleteExtender.CreateAutoCompleteItem(lst[i].Text,Convert.ToString(lst[i].IDValue));
items.Add(str);
}
return items.ToArray();
Then simple javascript
function GetID(source, eventArgs )
{
var HdnKey = eventArgs.get_value();
document.getElementById('<%=hdnID.ClientID %>').value = HdnKey;
}
and dont forget to set the attribute in auto complete extender OnClientItemSelected="GetID"