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

You can try this:

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

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

this.reqTypeInput.SelectedIndex = this.reqTypeInput.Items.IndexOf(type1);

HTH.