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Combobox initially loads with the id not the name

Hi there,

I have dragged over my a details view of a table i have in a dataset. This table has some foreign keys to in the column of country it might have the value of countryId = 1 which would mean that in the country table the record 1 is USA.
So I make those fields comboboxes and wire them up so that it displays the country name but saves the country id into the table.
My problem is that initially when the form loads it doesn't show the country name but instead shows the countryid. However if i expand my combobox it will display a list of country names?

If anyone can help I'd appreciate it. Thanks

mongoose_za Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:41 PM

Do you have the DataPropertyName set for the column?

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DeborahK Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:48 PM

You probably should postthe appropriate snippetsof your code, so that we can see what you're missing.

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BonnieB Sunday, August 16, 2009 2:20 PM

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