How to add a default “Select” option to this ASP.NET DropDownList control?

I am a new ASP.NET developer and I am trying to learn Linq-To-Entities. I am trying to bind a DropDownList with the Linq statement for retrieving the list of status in the Status Entity. Everything is working fine. However, I am trying now to add “Select” option to the DropDownList but It doesn’t work with me.
Could you please tell me how to fix this?

asp.net menu control not rending correctly in safari

The site I’m working on is using a Databound asp:Menu control. When sending 1 menu item it renders HTML that is absolutely correct in Firefox (and IE), but really messed up code in Safari and Chrome. Below is the code that was sent to each browser. I’ve tested it a few browsers, and they are all pretty similarly rendered, so I am only posting the two variations on the rendering source.

How to get the username of the user accessing ASP.NET intranet page within local network?

We have an ASP.NET intranet site, available to users who are either physically at and logged into a local machine or else to users who connect remotely via VPN. Is there a way to automatically get the username of whoever is accessing the page based on the name used to either log into the local machine or that used for the VPN?