[RESOLVED] Drop Down Combo

So i'm fairly new to the web dev. been a forms programmer most of my career. I'm developing a web page. I have a drop down combo, and a button. When I click the button, I want to be able to get the selected text value of the combo. However, when I do this, it always gives me the first value and when the page "refreshes", the combo returns back to the first selected index.

I'm sure this is a dumb question, but like i said i'm new to the WEB portion of VB.

please help.

thanks.

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Not much without your code but a guess:
Use your code inside If Not Page.IsPostBack .
If you press the button the page will do a partial refresh and if your code is outside the ispostback statement i will be re-executed thus recreating the combo.

I basically have a web page, with a drop down combo, and a button. When I click on the button, want to get the selectedindex of the combo and let's say put that value in a textbox already on the page.

WHen I do this, I always get the value of 0 no matter which selection I choose from the drop down.

yes that's true ,

agreed with sapator
because you Populate your DropDownList each time when your page is postback
so you need to prevent it from being Populated at the first time.

using

Code:

---

if(!IsPostBack){
// here Populate your DropDownList
}

---

this will give you the solve to your Problem

Thank You! I used it and is now working :)

ok, that's great

Hello,

The crux of the problem that you were having is with regard to the ASP.Net Page Life Cycle, which is very different to how things work in Windows Forms Applications.

I would highly recommend that you take a look at the following:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178472.aspx

And have a play with it. Set some breakpoints in each of the events that it mentions, and get a solid understanding on how it works.

Any questions, feel free to ask.

Gary