>I'm loading a ComboBox:
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>cboType.Items.Add("Book");
>cboType.Items.Add("CD");
>cboType.Items.Add("DVD");
>cboType.Items.Add("Periodical");
>cboType.Items.Add("Tape");
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>The I want to set it's selected index:
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>cboType.SelectedIndex = iItem;
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>This errors because cboType.Items.Count is zero.
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>What's wrong here?

That should work. It sounds like a timing issue - are you attempting to set the SelectedIndex before the items have been added? Or is iItem larger than the # of items in the collection (ex. you try to set SelectedIndex to 5 but the highest you can actually set it to is 4 because C# uses 0 based arrays?)