jhaushal

Have you tried populating your combobox from a dataset using the following properties... cbo1.DisplayMember = "UserTypeDesc" cbo1.ValueMember = "UserTypeId" and then set: cbo1.SelectedValue = User.UserTypeId The above reference is a 'User' Object with the Property 'UserTypeId' Seems to get the same results without creating additional classes and uses the inherent object properties