how to check if item is selected from a comboBox in C#

Question

I'm pretty new here.

I have a form, and want to check if the user filled it in correctly. In the form there's a combo box; how can I build the "if" statement for checking whether the user picked an item from it ?

P.S. Sorry for my bad English, it's not my mother tongue. :)

Answer 1

Use:

if(comboBox.SelectedIndex > -1) //somthing was selected 

To get the selected item you do:

Item m = comboBox.Items[comboBox.SelectedIndex]; 

As Matthew correctly states, to get the selected item you could also do

Item m = comboBox.SelectedItem;