beginners dropdown question

[Yog]

I am using the following to select an item in a dropdown at runtime.

If its a bad data and item doesn't exists in dropdown it errors out, is
there any other way to avoid this.

Thank you.

this.CTRY_CD1.Items.FindByValue(oDrSBAD1["CTRY_CD"].ToString().Trim()).Selected = true;

[Scott M.]

Check the data item to be searched on for a null value before selecting it.

"Yog" <Yo*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I am using the following to select an item in a dropdown at runtime.

If its a bad data and item doesn't exists in dropdown it errors out, is
there any other way to avoid this.

Thank you.

this.CTRY_CD1.Items.FindByValue(oDrSBAD1["CTRY_CD"].ToString().Trim()).Selected
= true;