In a combobox, how do I change the data type to an Integer?

[KitCarson]

I want to have a simple comboBox1 that displays a DropDownList consisting of the number 1 thru 12.

How do I get the comboBox1 data type to be an Int instead of a String??

Thanks in advance for help in this matter.

[kurtzky]

you mean you want to get the value of the selected item?

Convert.ToInt32(comboBox1.SelectedItem.ToString()) ;

[KitCarson]

I guess what I mean is that I want to use the 'selected item' as an integer. For some reason I cannot get it changed from a String. There has to be something elementary that I'm looking over.
Thanks.........................

[tlhintoq]

You don't. Combobox items are strings.
But you can easily convert a string to an int.

Convert.ToInt(myCombobox.SelectedItem);

[KitCarson]

Thanks!!

I was looking at it the wrong way.