How can I get the display member value instead of value member in combobox?

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Hi All,

I have used the following code to set the display member and value member in Combobox. I tried to get the value member by accessing the Combobox.Text property. But it is only returning the Display member value. Is there any way to get the display member value?

What I have tried:

I have tried by using the following code,

Combobox.Items

But it is returning the value as DataRow.

Posted 2-Jun-16 0:09am

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Updated 2-Jun-16 0:30am

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Zafar Sultan 2-Jun-16 6:17am

Can you please post the relevant code? Combobox.Items does not give enough information about your problem.

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George Jonsson · Answer 1 · 2016-06-02T00:20:00

Looks like you are using a DataTable as the DataSource.
If so, you can do something like the following example.

Initialize the combo box:

C#

DataTable dtProviders = DbProviderFactories.GetFactoryClasses();
comboDataProviders.DataSource = dtProviders;
comboDataProviders.DisplayMember = "Name";
comboDataProviders.ValueMember = "InvariantName";

To access the selected item, you can do like this:

C#

private void comboDataProviders_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    try
    {
        DataRowView drv = (comboDataProviders.SelectedItem as DataRowView);
        if (drv != null)
        {
            DataRow dr = drv.Row;
            string dataProvider = dr["InvariantName"].ToString();
            switch (dataProvider)
            {
                case "MySql.Data.MySqlClient": Do somethinsg break;
                default: throw new Exception(string.Format("The Data Provider '{0}' is not supported.", dataProvider));
            }
        }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());
    }
}

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