Displaying a value in a populated combo box

Here is the situation: I have populated a combo box with the names of divisions in my company and it is working fine. I go into edit mode and pull one record out of th开发者_JS百科e data table so I bind all controls on the form with one record. I also populate this combo box with all divisions but want it to display the selected division. While I know how to display correct date in textbox controls, I do not know how to make combo box display only selected data. It displays the first record from the query which populates it. Any suggestions?

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Not clear if you are using ASP.NET or Windows Form. I am assuming Windows Form at the moment since it has an actual ComboBox control, while ASP.NET only has DropDownList (not counting the AJAX Control Toolkit).

ComboBox has a bunch of Selected... properties, i.e. SelectedIndex, SelectedItem, SelectedValue, SelectedText that you can manipulate (set) to show a certain item on the screen. So you can just do cbDivision.SelectedText = myRecord.Division (assuming Division in myRecord contains the same name as the one bound in the ComboBox.

for reference, see: this

I'm not sure I understood your question correctly. But I think you just want to display the selectedValue in the dropdown list populated from a list of values.

< asp:DropDownList DataTextField="SomeDecsription" DataValueField="SomeValue" ...... />

I apologise if this is not what you were asking for