How do I retrieve the selected value from a combobox?

[mondo3]

As shown below, I've filled a customer combobox with a customer id (named intItem) and customer name (named strItem).
What would be the syntax to get the intItem after the user makes a selection?

            while (rsCustomer.Read())
            {
                // Load Customer Names into combobox.
                intItem = Convert.ToInt32(rsCustomer["CustomerID"].ToString());
                strItem = rsCustomer["CustomerName"].ToString();
                Customer item = new Customer(intItem, strItem);
                cboCustomerName.Items.Add(strItem);
            }

[GaryTexmo]

There should be a SelectedItem or SelectedIndex property on the combo box...

Yep, there's several available to you. Check it out here :)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...x_members.aspx

[mondo3]

Thanks for trying, but
cboCustomerName.SelectedItem.ToString()
would show the customer's name, but not the CustomerID which is what i need. and before you ask,
cboCustomerName.SelectedValue.ToString() gives an error message.
what i really need is a way to separate item back into strItem and intItem

[GaryTexmo]

Oh!

I can take a more detailed look when I get home, but let me say this. You get out of a combo box what you put in. You put a string in, so that's what you're going to get out. The combo box will display in it whatever the .ToString() evaluates to be, but you can put anything you like in there (I think, not 100% sure at this time).

I gotta run... hopefully that gives you some ideas, I'll try to get back to you shortly.

[mondo3]

thanks...in re-reading the code i posted i noticed that it should have been
cboCustomer.Items.Add(Item)
then the following code gave me the result I needed:

int intCustomerID=((Customer)cboCustomerName.SelectedI tem).CustomerID;

Thanks for your help!

[GaryTexmo]

Ah good, I'm glad you got it figured out. I probably should have seen that before, but I thought you were asking how to get it out period, not how to get the specific value.

Happy coding :)