Question

Right now, to be sure I am getting what I want I am using

actionComboBox.Items[actionComboBox.SelectedIndex].ToString()

to retrieve the string that is stored as an item in my TextBox

Does one of the Selected properties return my above statement? I can never seem to get what I want when I use those.

Like, does actionComboBox.SelectedItem as string return the above value?

EDIT:

I guess the true question here is: What do each Selected Property return such as; SelectedItem, SelectedValue, SelectedText.

Answer 1

I think SelectedText returns the text that is selected if you are able to edit the text in the combo box. I don’t think you use this property if you have the DropDownList style selected where the user cannot just type values into the combobox.

SelectedValue only applies if you are bind to a datasource. SelectedValue will return the item in the datasource you’ve selected, or if you have the DisplayMember field filled in, the value of the property/column that you have specified.

SelectedItem will return the selected item if you have just filled in the list items through the designer.

I get burned on these all the time, cause I always forget. The big question in your example is how are the items being populated into the combo box, that will affect the return values of these properties.