Combobox selection based on FindStringExact not working as intended

Question

I'm trying to select the item in the Combobox based on the stored value in a Sorteddictionary

String value matching

  comboBoxEdit3.SelectedItem = comboBoxEdit3.FindStringExact(Queries[_ucSetting.StandardSearchID.ToString()] + "(" + _ucSetting.StandardSearchID.ToString() + ")");

Elements in ComboBox

But this produces empty selection in the ComboBox

Answer 1

FindStringExact only returns the index of the first item that matches your string, or -1 if no match is found. You're trying to set the SelectedItem to the index being returned. You should set the SelectedIndex instead:

comboBoxEdit3.SelectedIndex = comboBoxEdit3.FindStringExact(Queries[_ucSetting.StandardSearchID.ToString()] + "(" + _ucSetting.StandardSearchID.ToString() + ")");