Re: Fill Combo :: "System.data.dataRowView"

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

This is a symptom of the FieldName supplied in

Me.cboProductName.DisplayMember = "ProductName"

being incorrect. If this does not exactly match to a valid fieldname (Case
Sensitive) exposed by the collection you will get:-

"System.Data.DataRowView"



Peter

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[WSM]

Hi,

Thanks for your Help. It Worked.

But one thing is very strange for me; "How could something be case sensitive
in a non-case-sensitive language like VB .NET?"

Anyways, Thanks again for your help.

WSM

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

Does it work if you cast the selected item to a string:-
Me.cboProductName.SelectedItem().ToString()

Although the item is displayed as a string it is actually a generic
"Object".



Peter
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Peter Foot
Windows Embedded MVP

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[Mark Reddick]

I ran into the exact same issue. I ended up wrapping a Try/Catch handler
around the code and explictly catch the cast error and ignore it. Something
like this:

try
{
int myId = (int)myCombo.SelectedValue;

// more code here
}
catch (InvalidCastException)
{
// do nothing
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}