ComboBox bug???

[Anthony]

Hello All,

I have a combo-box that contains three items added at design time. When I
try to set the SelectedText property at run-time based on a value from a
SqlDataReader, the SelectedText is not set, but if I step through the code,
the SelectedText gets set. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Using VB.Net 2003

Thanks,
Anthony

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Try this.

Dim arColor() As String
arColor = KnownColor.GetNames(GetType(KnownColor))
ComboBox1.Items.AddRange(arColor)

ComboBox1.SelectedIndex = ComboBox1.FindString("Blue")
Ken
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"Anthony" <ac********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hello All,

I have a combo-box that contains three items added at design time. When I

try to set the SelectedText property at run-time based on a value from a

SqlDataReader, the SelectedText is not set, but if I step through the
code,
the SelectedText gets set. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Using VB.Net 2003

Thanks,
Anthony

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[Anthony]

Ken,

I appreciate the quick response, and it worked.

Thanks for the help,

Anthony
"Ken Tucker [MVP]" <vb***@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Hi,

Try this.

Dim arColor() As String
arColor = KnownColor.GetNames(GetType(KnownColor))
ComboBox1.Items.AddRange(arColor)

ComboBox1.SelectedIndex = ComboBox1.FindString("Blue")
Ken
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"Anthony" <ac********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:#4**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl:

Hello All,

I have a combo-box that contains three items added at design time. When I
try to set the SelectedText property at run-time based on a value from a

SqlDataReader, the SelectedText is not set, but if I step through the
code,
the SelectedText gets set. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Using VB.Net 2003

Thanks,
Anthony

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[Greg Burns]

Is there any difference between these two statements?

ComboBox1.SelectedIndex = ComboBox1.FindString("Blue")

vs

ComboBox1.Text = "Blue"

They both appear to set the SelectedIndex (if Blue weren't in the list both
will set it to -1).

Just curious.

Greg

"Ken Tucker [MVP]" <vb***@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Hi,

Try this.

Dim arColor() As String
arColor = KnownColor.GetNames(GetType(KnownColor))
ComboBox1.Items.AddRange(arColor)

ComboBox1.SelectedIndex = ComboBox1.FindString("Blue")
Ken
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"Anthony" <ac********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:#4**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl:

Hello All,

I have a combo-box that contains three items added at design time. When I
try to set the SelectedText property at run-time based on a value from a

SqlDataReader, the SelectedText is not set, but if I step through the
code,
the SelectedText gets set. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Using VB.Net 2003

Thanks,
Anthony

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[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

FindString finds an item in the combobox that starts with those
letters. For example combobox1.text = "blu" makes selectionindex=-1
combobox1.findstring("blu") comes up with blue.

Ken
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"Greg Burns" <greg_burns@DONT_SPAM_ME_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Is there any difference between these two statements?

ComboBox1.SelectedIndex = ComboBox1.FindString("Blue")

vs

ComboBox1.Text = "Blue"

They both appear to set the SelectedIndex (if Blue weren't in the list
both
will set it to -1).

Just curious.

Greg

"Ken Tucker [MVP]" <HYPERLINK
"mailto:vb***@bellsouth.net"vb***@bellsouth.ne t> wrote in message
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Hi,

Try this.

Dim arColor() As String
arColor = KnownColor.GetNames(GetType(KnownColor))
ComboBox1.Items.AddRange(arColor)

ComboBox1.SelectedIndex = ComboBox1.FindString("Blue")
Ken
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"Anthony" <HYPERLINK "mailto:ac********@yahoo.com"ac********@yahoo. com>
wrote in message
news:#4**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl:

Hello All,

I have a combo-box that contains three items added at design time.
When
I

try to set the SelectedText property at run-time based on a value from
a

SqlDataReader, the SelectedText is not set, but if I step through
the
code,
the SelectedText gets set. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Using VB.Net 2003

Thanks,
Anthony

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[Kenneth Dion]

Even though that solution worked I am curious as to why just stepping
through the debugger without changing any code caused it to work.
I am having a similair problem but with a listbox in an ASP.NET
page. On the click of a button items are being added to the listbox which
do not show up unless I put a break point in the code and sort of give
it time to show up it seems. It seems if the pause is about 1 second or
greater
it shows up otherwise it does not. Same as Anthony's problem.

Kenny.

"Ken Tucker [MVP]" <vb***@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Hi,

FindString finds an item in the combobox that starts with those
letters. For example combobox1.text = "blu" makes selectionindex=-1
combobox1.findstring("blu") comes up with blue.

Ken
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"Greg Burns" <greg_burns@DONT_SPAM_ME_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OK**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl:

Is there any difference between these two statements?

ComboBox1.SelectedIndex = ComboBox1.FindString("Blue")

vs

ComboBox1.Text = "Blue"

They both appear to set the SelectedIndex (if Blue weren't in the list
both
will set it to -1).

Just curious.

Greg

"Ken Tucker [MVP]" <HYPERLINK
"mailto:vb***@bellsouth.net"vb***@bellsouth.ne t> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Hi,

Try this.

Dim arColor() As String
arColor = KnownColor.GetNames(GetType(KnownColor))
ComboBox1.Items.AddRange(arColor)

ComboBox1.SelectedIndex = ComboBox1.FindString("Blue")
Ken
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"Anthony" <HYPERLINK "mailto:ac********@yahoo.com"ac********@yahoo. com> wrote in message
news:#4**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl:

> Hello All,
>
> I have a combo-box that contains three items added at design time.
> When

I

>
> try to set the SelectedText property at run-time based on a value from > a
>
> SqlDataReader, the SelectedText is not set, but if I step through
> the
> code,
> the SelectedText gets set. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Using VB.Net 2003
>
> Thanks,
> Anthony
>

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