Move selection to the next item in ListBox when the record is deleted in a FormView

In my previous post, I showed the method to highlight a newly inserted record from the FormView in the ListBox. Conversly, when a record is deleted from the FormView, I'd like to move to the next item in the ListBox if there is one. If the deleted item is last item, then move to the previous one.

Below is the definition of the ListBox:
<asp:ListBox ID="listBoxEmployees" runat="server"
AutoPostBack="true"
DataSourceID="odsListBoxEmployees"
DataTextField="EmployeeName"
DataValueField="EmployeeID"
onselectedindexchanged="listBoxEmployees_SelectedIndexChanged"
ondatabound="listBoxEmployees_DataBound">
</asp:ListBox>

Below is the definition of the FormView:
<asp:FormView
ID="fvEmployee"
runat="server"
DataKeyNames="EmployeeID"
DataSourceID="odsEmployee"
oniteminserted="fvEmployee_ItemInserted"
>

Below is the definition of the Object Data Source:

<asp:ObjectDataSource
ID="odsEmployee"
runat="server"
TypeName="Employees"
SelectMethod="SelectOne"
InsertMethod = "Insert"
UpdateMethod = "Update"
DeleteMethod = "Delete"
ConflictDetection="OverwriteChanges"
oninserted="odsEmployee_Inserted"
ondeleting="odsEmployee_Deleting"
>
<SelectParameters>
<asp:ControlParameter Name="EmployeeID" Type="Int32" Direction="Input" ControlID="listBoxEmployees" PropertyName="SelectedValue" />
</SelectParameters>
<InsertParameters>
<asp:Parameter Name="EmployeeName" Size="80" Direction = "Input" Type="String" />
</InsertParameters>
<UpdateParameters>
<asp:Parameter Name="EmployeeID" Type="Int32" Direction="Input" />
<asp:Parameter Name="EmployeeName" Size="80" Direction = "Input" Type="String" />
</UpdateParameters>
</asp:ObjectDataSource>

Handle Deleted event of the ODS so before the record is deleted in the FormView, we'll store the next item in the ListBox in view state as follows:

protected void odsEmployee_Deleting(object sender, ObjectDataSourceMethodEventArgs e)
{
    //if there are more one items in the list
    if (listBoxEmployees.Items.Count > 1)
        //if the record to be deleted is not the last one in the list
        if (listBoxEmployees.SelectedIndex < listBoxEmployees.Items.Count-1)
        {
            //store the next item's value
            ViewState["EmployeeID"] = listBoxEmployees.Items[++listBoxEmployees.SelectedIndex].Value;
        }
        else
            //if it is the last one, then store the previous item's value 
            ViewState["EmployeeID"] = listBoxEmployees.Items[--listBoxEmployees.SelectedIndex].Value;
}

The code above is self explanatory.

Next handle the DataBound event of the ListBox control as follows:

protected void listBoxEmployees_DataBound(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (listBoxEmployees.Items.Count > 0)
if (ViewState["EmployeeID"] != null)
{
listBoxEmployees.SelectedValue = ViewState["EmployeeID"].ToString();
}
else listBoxEmployees.SelectedIndex = 0;
ViewState.Remove("EmployeeID");
}

This will set the SelectedValue of the ListBox to the value in the view state. After we used the value in the view state, we remove it.