This one is really driving me crazy ( a short drive for me ).

I have a combo box that displays all the US states - it displays the full state name and the value member is the postal abbreviation. I can see the data in the table in SQl Server and in th BO when I step through the code. But the state does not display in the combo unless I edit the record in the UI and save it. What is up with this?

Thanks

I have been trying to tell you how I solved this but I keep getting this error when I try to post the response:

The board administrator has requested that you must provide some message content within your post. You cannot post only HTML, Images, EmotIcons or IFCode.

You are probably cutting the code from one place and the pasting it.  It you paste it into notepad or something to strip the formatting first you will more than likely not see this message.

OK - here goes When all else fails, try a bigger hammer - this code in the boParticipants_Navigated eventhandler solved the problem, but I have no idea why it was necessary in this one case:

cbostate_nme.SelectedValue = boParticipants.state_nme.Trim();
boParticipants.CurrentDataTable.AcceptChanges();