Question

I have user submitted content that is loaded into c# winform in our office for processing before officially added to database. The user can submit a ‘Referrer’ as two text fields-first and last name. In the office I want to have a combobox will all existing referrers loaded in, then the first couple letters of the name to advance the combobox down to the area it needs to be at. I want to do something like this, taking the first two letters of the name and use that to initialize the combobox.

if (txtrefFirstName.TextLength > 2)
{
   string firstStart = "" + txtrefFirstName.Text[0] + txtrefFirstName.Text[1];
   firstStart = firstStart.ToUpper();
   ddlReferring.SelectedText.StartsWith(firstStart);
}
else
   ddlReferring.Text = "";

Any ideas or suggestions to get this to work?

Thanks

David K.

Answer 1

You could write something like this…

foreach (string item in ddlReferring.Items)
{
    if (item.StartsWith(firstStart))
    {
        ddlReferring.SelectedText = item;
        break;
    }
}