Combo Box Index Refference

[Algar]

VB.NET ComboBox

 

I am trying to get the Text of a Combobox item by refferencing the index of the item.

 

Sounds pretty easy but ive been fooling with it for half an hour now and no luck.

 

Thanks in advance.

[mutant]

ComboBox1.Items(indexnumber)

This will return the text of the of item with the specified index.

:)

[Algar]

Doh, thats the first thing I tried :)

Brings around more problems then....

 

I have a sql string using ComboBox1.Items(0) during the form load which is giving me an out of bounds error, but its after the code which populates the list.

 

If I call MsgBox (ComboBox1.Items(0)) after the form is loaded it works fine giving me the first Item in the list.

 

How is this possible ?

[Algar]

To be more accurate, the error is:

An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException' occurred in system.windows.forms.dll

 

Additional information: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values.

 

with the line:

sSql = "SELECT * FROM Courses WHERE Name = '" & cboCourses.Items(0) & "'"

[Algar]

Ok, I guess the form designer code managed to trigger something cause I put a boolean var holding the db operation till the end of the form load and it works fine now.