SelectedValue vs SelectedItem.Value of DropDownList

Question

I\'m working on an old project written and then patched by several people over the years. At some places they have used SelectedValue property and other places they used Sel

Answer 1

One important distinction between the two (which is visible in the Reflected code) is that SelectedValue will return an empty string if a nothing is selected, whereas SelectedItem.Value will throw a NullReference exception.