vb.net - How to getvalue from dropdownlist

Question

I am using vb.net language

I have a dropdownlist, which is filled by below pattern

"Smith,James" so first one is surname and second after "," is firstname

I have two textboxes for surname and firstname. Now I want to fill the textbox when dropdownlist is changed.

I mean when user changes the dropdownlist the selected text in dropdown will be filled in related textboxes.

so my result will be like this

surname.text = "Smith" firstname.text = "James"

Please use vb.net code for this

Thanks.

Best Regards, MS

Answer 1

Something like that should work:

surname.text = dropdownlist.SelectedItem.ToString().Split(",")(0)
firstname.text = dropdownlist.SelectedItem.ToString().Split(",")(1)