Set the selecteditem of a combobox based on key,value pair.

Question

I have a combobox that I populate like this:

this.reqTypeInput.Items.Add(new RequestType(\"Label 1\", \"Value1\"));
this.reqTypeInput.Items.Add(new RequestType(\         


        

Answer 1

If the request types do not change, you could store each RequestType object in a variable first, then set the SelectedItem property of the ComboBox to that variable.

For example:

RequestType type1 = New RequestType("Label 1", "Value 1");
RequestType type2 = New RequestType("Label 2", "Value 2");

reqTypeInput.Items.Add(type1);
reqTypeInput.Items.Add(type2);

Then, set it like this:

reqTypeInput.SelectedItem = type2;