Combobox default item

younis abdeljawwad

i want when i run the form that have combobox , i need default or selected an item by default
how is that in visual studio 2010 professional

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Vulpes14y ago
Accepted answer
Just set the combobox's SelectedIndex property to the index (zero-based) of whichever item you want to be the default. So, if you want the second item to be the default:

comboBox1.SelectedIndex = 1;
Satyapriya Nayak14y ago
Hi Younis,

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Datagridview_bind
{
    public partial class Form4 : Form
    {
        public Form4()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form4_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            comboBox1.Items.Add("Selected an item");
            comboBox1.Items.Add("a");
            comboBox1.Items.Add("b");
            comboBox1.Items.Add("c");
            comboBox1.SelectedIndex = 0;
        }
    }
}

Thanks