Why does a binding a combobox to datatable not work the same as da

[Mohamed Osman]

If a bind a data table to a comboxbox as appose to merging the table into a
dataset the selectedvalue property does not work consistently

On loading of a form:
A datatable is created from a database with ID 1 - 10 and values associated
e.g. Red, green, blue.

An additional item is added to the datatable to reflect a non selected item
with an ID of 0 for no colour selected.

on reading of data, when a value of 0 is set to the selected value the
following error occurs:

Parameter name: '-2147483613' is not a valid value for 'index'

But if the datatable is first merged with a data set and the dataset's table
is reference to the combobox, there's no problem.
Sample code Try commented, then uncommented:

Sub Load
dtDataTable = ColoursRead()

'dsDataSet.Merge(dtDataTable)

With cboColours
.DataSource = dtDataTable
'.DataSource = _referenceData.Tables("Banks")
.DisplayMember = "Name"
.ValueMember = "pkiColourID"
End With
End Sub

Sub SelectValue()
cboColours.SelectedValue = 0
End Sub

Data:
pkiColourID Name
0 No Colour
1 Red
2 Green
3 Blue