How do I grab a certain column's value if I selected an item in a combobox?

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Hey!

I'm a fairly new coder so excuse me if this is a really dumb question.

I have a comboBox and have populated it with a table from my database. Now I want to have the script grab the PKey column from that table and save it as an object (or something) so I can reuse it for another table. What would be the way to do it?

What I have tried:

I've tried a few of the things I found online, though none seemed to help me with my problem :x

Posted 17-Apr-18 2:05am

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Updated 18-Apr-18 2:14am

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Richard MacCutchan 17-Apr-18 10:35am

The SelectedItem of the combobox should tell you which data row the user is referring to. So given that information you can extract the relevant column value(s).

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sachinskb · Answer 1 · 2018-04-18T02:15:00

Solution 1

 ComboControl.DataTextField = "TextField";
ComboControl.DataValueField = "ValueField";

you can use PKey inplce of

ValueField

for

DataValueField

and use

ComboControl.SelectedItem.Value

to save at other place

Posted 18-Apr-18 2:15am

sachinskb