Question

When I run my program and get it to give me the value (Yes, I do have the items in the drop down list selected) in the combo-box all I get is this,

System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox+ObjectCollection

This is the code I am using

 Dim name As String
        name = cmbworld.Text
        MsgBox(name)

Any ideas?

P.S. The code I used to insert the values is

cmbworld.Items.Clear()

     If File.Exists(root + "\setting\world.txt") Then
        For Each line As String In File.ReadLines(root + "\setting\world.txt")
            If line.Length <> 0 Then
                cmbworld.Items.Add(line)
            End If
        Next line
    Else

Answer 1

This code would reproduce the problem:

    Dim name As String
    name = cmbworld.Items.ToString()
    MsgBox(name)

You have some other code somewhere that is assigning the value of the Text property incorrectly. You need to index the Items collection. For example:

    cmbworld.Text = cmbWorld.Items(0)