Question

I am trying to display the result from an if statment which is based upon the option selected within a windows form combo box.
I am having issues when the if statment is placed within its own class seperate to the form and is always just returning the else value. I have made the combobox public.
My code is as follows.

public void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    xRayData xRayData1 = new xRayData();
    string shiftChangeValue;
    shiftChangeValue = xRayData1.shiftChange();
    label2.Text = shiftChangeValue;
}

public string shiftChange()
{
    frmSWChange frmSWChange1 = new frmSWChange();

    string shiftLetter;

    if (frmSWChange1.cbShift.Text == "Day")
    {
        shiftLetter = "D";
    }
    else if (frmSWChange1.cbShift.Text == "Night")
    {
        shiftLetter = "N";
    }
    else if (frmSWChange1.cbShift.Text == "Morning")
    {
        shiftLetter = "M";
    }
    else
    {
        shiftLetter = "ERROR";
    }


    return shiftLetter;
}

Answer 1

Use Selected... for getting the selected item in combobox

frmSWChange1.cbShift.SelectedItem // gets the binded item
frmSWChange1.cbShift.SelectedText // gets the display text of the selected item
frmSWChange1.cbShift.SelectedValue // gets the value of the selected item