Trouble setting the selectedindex of a listbox

"John Kotuby" <johnk@dotnet.itags.org.powerlist.comwrote in message
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It would be nice to be able to just "set" the SelectedValue. I am
wondering why that more direct route is not available.

lstState.SelectedValue = "CT"

or

lstState.Items.FindByValue("CT").Selected = True

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Mark Rae
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http://www.markrae.netThanks Mark,
I must have misread MSDN doc on that. I thought that only the SelectedIndex
was settable.

Yep there was a dumb mistake on my part. The State abbreviations were coming
from SQL lookup table in a field defined as Char(10) and I wasn't trimming
them. Some days I wonder where my head is.

"Mark Rae [MVP]" <mark@.markNOSPAMrae.netwrote in message
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"John Kotuby" <johnk@.powerlist.comwrote in message
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Originally Posted by

>It would be nice to be able to just "set" the SelectedValue. I am
>wondering why that more direct route is not available.

>
lstState.SelectedValue = "CT"
>
or
>
lstState.Items.FindByValue("CT").Selected = True
>
>
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

"John Kotuby" <JohnKotuby@.discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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Originally Posted by

I must have misread MSDN doc on that. I thought that only the
SelectedIndex was settable.

Easily done...

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Originally Posted by

Yep there was a dumb mistake on my part. The State abbreviations were
coming from SQL lookup table in a field defined as Char(10) and I wasn't
trimming them. Some days I wonder where my head is.

Are US state abbreviations ever anything other than two characters in
length...?

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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net