Populate ComboBox with DayOfWeek enum?

[kbalias]

Good day I am using Visual Studio 2010 to develop a Windows app. I am busy with a module where the user can specify setting for days of the week, for example Mondays the lunch duration is 1 hour, Tuesday it is 30 minutes, and so on. I want to display the days of the week (Sunday, Monday, …) in a ComboBox so that the user can select a day. The DisplayMember must be the name, e.g Monday The ValueMember must be the ordinal number of the day in the DayOfWeek enum, e.g. 1 How do I populate the ComboBox using the DayOfWeek enumerator? I tried:

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
for (int j = 0; j < 7; j++)
{
comboDay.Items.Add((DayOfWeek)j);
}
}

private void comboDay_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("Selected Day = " + comboDay.SelectedValue);
}

This shows the DayOfWeek names in the combobox, but the SelectedValue is always null. Any suggestions on better ways of doing this? Thanks. Kobus

[Pete OHanlon]

Use SelectedItem instead of SelectedValue.

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[kbalias]

Thanks I feel a fool for not thinking of that. Regards. Kobus

[Pete OHanlon]

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