ComboBox SelectedText doesn t give me the SelectedText

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I am building a String and the code looks like  String status    The status of my combobox is     comboBoxTest SelectedText   I am using WinForm in VS2010  The result looks like      The status of my combobox is

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If you bind your Combobox to something like KeyValuePair, with properties in the constructor like so...:

 DataSource = dataSource,
 DisplayMember = "Value",
 ValueMember = "Key"

so dataSource is of type KeyValuePair...

You end up with having to do this...

  string v = ((KeyValuePair)((ComboBox)c).SelectedItem).Value;

(I had a Dynamic form - where c was of type Control - so had to cast it to ComboBox)

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Try this   String status    The status of my combobox is     comboBoxTest text

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or try this code   String status    The status of my combobox is     comboBoxTest SelectedItem ToString

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I face this problem 5 minutes before   I think that a solution  with visual studio 2005  is   myString   comboBoxTest GetItemText comboBoxTest SelectedItem     Forgive me if I am wrong

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I think you want to use  String status    The status of my combobox is     comboBoxTest Text   SelectedText property from MSDN     Gets or sets the text that is selected in the editable portion of a   ComboBox    while Text property from MSDN     Gets or sets the text associated with this control

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All of the previous answers explain what the OP  should  do   I am explaining what the  SelectedText property is   The  SelectedText property is not the text in the combobox   It is the text that is highlighted   It is the same as  SelectedText property for a textbox   The following picture shows that the  SelectedText property would be equal to  ort

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From the documentation   You can use the SelectedText property to retrieve or change the currently selected text in a ComboBox control  However  you should be aware that the selection can change automatically because of user interaction  For example  if you retrieve the SelectedText value in a button Click event handler  the value will be an empty string  This is because the selection is automatically cleared when the input focus moves from the combo box to the button  When the combo box loses focus  the selection point moves to the beginning of the text and any selected text becomes unselected  In this case  getting the SelectedText property retrieves an empty string  and setting the SelectedText property adds the specified value to the beginning of the text

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Here s how I would approach the problem  assuming you want to change the text of say  a label      private void comboBoxtest SelectedIndexChanged object sender  EventArgs e                var combotext   comboBoxtest Text          var status    The status of my combo box is    combotext          label1 Text   status

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I think you dont need SelectedText but you may need  String status    The status of my combobox is     comboBoxTest Text

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To get selected item  you have to use SELECTEDITEM property of comboBox  And since this is an Object  if you wanna assign it to a string  you have to convert it to string  by using ToString   method   string myItem   comboBox1 SelectedItem ToString      this does the trick

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