Question

I had a databound combobox in my windows form I populate it by a function deptload() IN FORM LOAD

public void DeptcomboLoad()
        {
            DataTable dt = depttrans.getDeptName();
            Cmb_Department.DataSource = dt;
            Cmb_Department.DisplayMember = "DepartmentName"; //CHAR
            Cmb_Department.ValueMember = "DepartmentPK"; //INT 
        }

Now when an employee of a department (say accounts DepartmentName=”Accounts ” , DepartmentPK=23 ) login I want the ComboBox text to be selected as “acounts ”
and when I go to get the selected value of the ComboBox I should get 23

I tried

Cmb_Department.selectedtext="Accounts"
Cmb_Department.Text="Accounts"

but its not giving the selected value

Can anyone give a suggestion

Answer 1

To change selected value of the combobox you can use
SelectedItem property or SelectedIndex.
Index must be exact number in your data sourse, and Item must be exact object from datasource