How to select items in a combo box

hello,

You can bind the ComboBox with object as well instead of string. And then you can reference the selected value from code behind. Here are the sample codes.


http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winforms/thread/c7a82a6a-763e-424b-84e0-496caa9cfb4d/

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Forums/Thread/120655/combo-box-value-and-text-in-vs-2008-for-windows-applicat.aspx

The reason why the code is not working is that you have no separator between the first and last names. I don't know whether this is deliberate but if isn't then I'd add one:

        combox_User.Items.Add(userName + " " + lastName);

Otherwise you need some way to determine where the second word starts. Would it be safe to assume that it always begin with an upper case letter? Is so, you could do it like this:

        string name = combox_User.SelectedItem.ToString();
        int index = 0;
        for(int i = 1; i < name.Length; i++)
        {
           char c = name[i];
           if (Char.IsUpper(c))
           {
              index = i;
              break;
           }
        }
        textBox1.Text = name.Substring(0, index); // to get first name

This is how I added the values to the combobox is there another way.Above mentioned way did not work please anyone help me.

reader = comuser.ExecuteReader();
            while(reader.Read ())
            {
                string userName,lastName;
                userName = reader [0].ToString();
                lastName = reader [1].ToString();

                combox_User.Items.Add(userName+lastName);
               
               
            }

You could do something like this: