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The ComboBox and Selecting Items
Excel Chart Project: For C# and VB NET Students
Just a short lesson, this one. We need to get which item was selected in the combo box. We can then use this to get the correct chart data for a staff member.
Go back to the Form's Design View. Click on your Combo Box to select
it. In the properties area on the right of Visual Studio, click the
lightning symbol to display a list of events. Locate the SelectedIndexChanged
event
Double click to create a code stub.
There's only one line of code we need to add. Before doing so, add this
line near the top of your code, just under the arrayData line:
C#
int getRowNumber;
VB:
Dim getRowNumber As Integer
We'll need this variable in the button code, which is why it's at the top.
To get which item was selected, add this line in C#:
getRowNumber = cmbStaff.SelectedIndex;
And this in VB:
getRowNumber = cmbStaff.SelectedIndex
Your code should look like this in C#:
And this in Visual Basic .Net:
Every time a member of the sales staff is selected, the SelectedIndexChanged event fires. You can use SelectedIndex to get which items was selected from your ComboBox. The first item on your list will be Index 0, the second is Index 1, etc.
That's all we need for the combo box code. We can start on the button now. We'll do that in the next lesson.
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