ComboBox Value

[Dianna K]

Hi,

I am trying to set the value of the a combobox with a
field from a dataset. It will not set.

Me.cboTypeDesc.Text = DsTitle.Tables("Title").Rows(0).Item
("genre_description")

or

index = cboTypeDesc.FindStringExact(DsTitle.Tables
("Title").Rows(0).Item("genre_description"))
Me.cboGenre.SelectedIndex = index

Is there something wrong with the above? The combo box is
being filled via a datasource (displayMember, valueMember).

Any help would be great,
Thanks, Dianna

 

[Jan Tielens]

Hi

Try using the SelectedItem property, although the code you write should be
working in my opinion.

You could set some breakpoints to check if the
DsTitle.Tables("Title").Rows(0).Item("genre_description") has an expected
value that can be found in the cboTypeDesc.DataSource.

Jan

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[Eric]

I suspect the problem is in the tables value

combobox.text is just setting a text according to the
input (doesn't even check if the item is in the
combobox). So either the assigned value was "" (empty
string)
or your code didn't execute at all

 

[Dianna K]

Thank you for your help. It seems I was missing
the 'ToString' on my field value

DsTitle.Tables("Title").Rows(0).Item
("genre_description").ToString

I knew it was something ridiculous.

Dianna

 

[Dianna K]

Thank you for your help. It seems I was missing
the 'ToString' on my field value

DsTitle.Tables("Title").Rows(0).Item
("genre_description").ToString

I knew it was something ridiculous.

Dianna