getting a value from a bound combobox

This may sound like a simple question, but being a self taught vb programmer it's apparently not that obvious to me.

I have a combobox that is bound to the "client" field of a dataset. How do I get the string value of the user's selected item? It seems like no matter what I try (selectedvalue.tostring, selectedtext.tostring, etc.) it returns system.data.datarowview or an empty string "".

Code:

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adaptSecurity.Fill(dsDataset, "TableName")
      ropDownList1.DataSource = dsDataset.Tables("Tablename").DefaultView
      DropDownList1.DataTextField = "fieldname"

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Hey,

try something like this. Im also beginning to learn vb.net in a do-it yourself thing and this has worked for me. Hope it helps you out.

not sure though but did you check the assign combobox .DisplayMember field and the .ValueMember because it may occurs that certain error.

I assigned the .valuemember to that field and now I get the text I wanted from the selectedvalue.

Thank you.