How do I set the selected item in a comboBox to match my string using C#?

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May D picture May D · Jan 16, 2009 · Viewed 648.9k times · Source

I have a string "test1" and my comboBox contains test1, test2, and test3. How do I set the selected item to "test1"? That is, how do I match my string to one of the comboBox items?

I was thinking of the line below, but this doesn't work.

comboBox1.SelectedText = "test1";

Answer

Norbert B. picture Norbert B. · Jan 16, 2009

This should do the trick:

Combox1.SelectedIndex = Combox1.FindStringExact("test1")

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