Answered Solved by Joshdbr stop input into a combobox

[paulthepaddy]

i have a combobox that is linked to a database, but when an item is selected it is changing the name of the top item to the selected name. im sure this is happing because it is its text value and not it selectitem value, is there anyway to stop text input so it becomes a selected value rather than a text property

 

[Joshdbr]

Try changing the DropDownStyle property to DropDownList.

-Josh

 

[paulthepaddy]

Ty josh it did what i asked for. just not what i wanted to achive, its not a prob tho the software for family il just tell them not to b an ass and trying to break the app LMFAO