ComboBox Text Value

I am having a brain fart on what should be simple for me by now.
I want to get the text of selcted value in a combox into a variable

Code:

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Dim sslValue As String = ComboBox1.Text
            MsgBox(sslValue)

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My msgbox keeps display 0 no matter what i try

SelectedValue
SelectedItem

etc..

any help

Thanks

do you have an item selected in your combobox?

Never mind I knew i was having a brain fart
i was executing code in a for loop that never had anything

sorry to waste anyones time