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

Be careful using SelectedItem.Text... If there is no item selected, then SelectedItem will be null and SelectedItem.Text will generate a null-value exception.

.NET should have provided a SelectedText property like the SelectedValue property that returns String.Empty when there is no selected item.