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Problem getting value from combobox and late binding

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moondaddy

using vb.net 1.1 I have a combobox which I'm trying to get the selected
item's value. the problem is that this class uses Option Explicit On and
Option Strict On so the following line gets a compile error:

m_GoToID = CType(cmbGoTo.SelectedItem.row(0), Int32)

with the blue squiggly under cmbGoTo.SelectedItem.row(0)

and the compile error is:

Option Strict On disallows late binding

I populated the combo by binding it to a dataset table.

Can anyone help on this?

Thanks

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moondaddy

I figured it out. Earlier I had tried this:

objB.myCombo = CType(myCombo.SelectedValue, Int32)

but got an error (I forget just what the error was), but I've figured out
how to make this line work. In order to use 'SelectedValue', I needed to
first define the value member. So when I load data into the combo, I call
this line:

Me.myCombo.ValueMember = "ID"

Where ID is the name if the ID column in the dataset.

Now it works and compiles too when using Option Strict On.

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Jeffrey Tan (VIP)

Hi moondaddy,

I am glad you figure it out.

ComboBox.SelectedItem will return a System.Object type object, it did not
has a row(0) member, so you can not do like this.

Also, if you do not specify ValueMember for ComboBox, combobox.selectedvalue
will return null object.

Hope this helps

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
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