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How get the value of disabled ComboBox?

i have a lot of trouble with my CUIT. I want to test my window with data from database. The window is so constructed that some fields are deactivated so that the user can not change the values. The ComboBox gets a value, but in CUIT I can not read this value, because the control is not enabled. That's why I can not read properties of control right, SelectedIndex is f.e. always -1. Is there any way to find the text of ComboBox?

if you are working with WpfComboBox, you can obtain all items of the combobox by getting the property Items. It returns you basically UITestControlCollection and you can enumerate through its elements:
foreach (UITestControl uiTestControl in yourUiTestControlCollection)
{
string name = uiTestControl.FriendlyName;
}
or similarly by using lambda-expressions.
In this case it does not matter which item is selected and in which state (Enabled = true/false;) the combobox is.
However, it might not help if your combobox loads all the items somehow dynamically when changing its state to enabled. Then you will have to find another test scenario to make the combobox enabled before you analyze it with your test method.
Hope it will help.

Struct & Enum, Combobox.SelectedItem

The program is a minidatabase-ish thing for product ordering purposes, where I keep the unique orders in a struct, and the productNames in an enum (for practice basically). I only have 3 productnames (Product0, Product1, Product2), and they are added to a combobox (cbo_productNameEdit.DataSource = Enum.GetNames(typeof(productNames));).
Anyway, after saving an order, I want this combobox to change it's selected item to the saved product's name, but it fails to do so. I checked it with a MessageBox, to see if it didn't store it properly...
MessageBox.Show(Orders[cbo_productID.SelectedIndex].productName.ToString());
cbo_productNameEdit.SelectedItem = Orders[cbo_productID.SelectedIndex].productName;
... the messagebox returned Product2, which is indeed the correct one, but the selected item stayed at Product0.

One thing you could do to solve it is to set the SelectedIndex instead of SelectedItem property on the combobox. By default Enums are 0 based integers, so the index will corespond to the value of the enum.
cbo_productNameEdit.SelectedIndex = (int)Enum.Parse(typeof(productNames),
Orders[cbo_productID.SelectedIndex].productName.ToString());

Because you used .DataSource property for filling ComboBox with items
You need to use .SelectedValue for setting selecting item
cbo_productNameEdit.SelectedValue = Orders[cbo_productID.SelectedIndex].productName;
From MSDN: ComboBox.SelectedValue

ListBox.SelectedItem is null notification

I need to track current selected item in ListBox to turn off some other controls on the form when selected item become null. I try to use SelectedIndexChanged event, but it not raise when selected item is null.
Can you please advise something?
UPDATE: Selected item becomes null because i set new DataSource value with empty collection. May be it's a reason of my problem?
I need to explain. ListBox represent collection of items from database. When user add/edit/delete some item, I refresh listbox by calling this method:
private void RefreshList()
{
lbParts.DataSource = this.database.Fetch<part>(string.Empty);
}
It fetched all items from database, convert it to List<part> collection and set as ListBox DataSource.

That is incorrect. SelectedIndexChanged is raised when SelectedItem becomes null. In this case, SelectedIndex will be -1.
EDIT: you are indeed correct that when you change DataSource, you don't get SelectedIndexChanged. I would recommend explicitly setting SelectedIndex=-1 immediately before anytime you change DataSource

Perhaps handle the DataSourceChanged event as well? If the choices available in the listbox change, then I assume this is reason to perform a refresh on the forms avialable controls?

Retrieve value of most recently SelectedItem from multi-select listbox

How can I retrieve the value of a clicked item in a multi-select listbox?
Currently, if I click one item and use lstBox.SelectedValue, it will return the proper value; however, if I then click on another item, I am still shown the first item's value.
Basically, I want the value of the item most recently clicked on, regardless of whether or not it is the SelectedValue.

If it is a multiple selection listbox, you can get a collection of all the selected items by using SelectedItems instead of SelectedItem.
If you need to know the sequence in which the items were selected, or which was selected most recently, I think you would need to record if yourself by SelectedIndexChanged event.

The SelectedIndexChanged handler will get called when you select/unselect an item in the listbox.
However, it doesn't indicate which one was selected/unselected.
listbox1.SelectedItems
will contain the currently selected items and you could internally keep track of which index was most recently added.

Stuck with datagridview and combo box column

I have a typical requirement.
I have a datagridview with a combobox column(items loaded at design time). When a user selects an item from combobox, remaining rows gets updated in database based on the selectedItem and dgv gets refreshed.
Problem is the combo box will lose its current selection and goes to unselected state.
I want to retain the selected item even after dgv refreshed.
Could anyone help me out
Thanks in advance

Do you mean that you're using an unbound comboboxcolumn? If so, the value can't automatically be persisted when refreshing the datasource. You need to store the selected value before updating and setting it in code after refresh.
If your column is actually databound, the selected value is either not stored in the database or you have some data type problem.
Is the combobox there to let the user select a value for the field or do you use it as a way to execute a command on the record?
Do you have any code you can post?

Datagrid Combo-Box value will retain the string value but will refresh any integer values automatically.
Here is what you need to do :
-When populating Combo-Box value to just convert its value to toString().
-Also if you are setting a default select value also set it with string type.
-Your Combo-box will automatically retain the value selected even after refreshing.
:)

have a combobox in ur datagridview. Assign values to it using a bindingsource.
then write an eventhandler for the datagridviews "EditingControlShowing" event.
in that, remove had handler if any exists for the comboboxes Selectedindexchanged event. then add an event handler for the selectedIndexChanged event say "ComboBoxValueChanged"
in that "ComboBoxValueChanged",
DirectCast the sender to System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewComboBoxEditingControl and get the selected value of it.
Now use it to compute any value you want.
you may wana refer to this
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridviewcomboboxeditingcontrol.aspx