drop down loses value

I am not saving any of the information on the page yet (the controls and the form stay in existence while the user is on the 2nd page), not until the user saves or cancels the actions of the 2nd page which brings the user back to the first page with the information stored from the 2nd page into a container on the first page. At this point one of the options a user has is to save all of the information and exit.

The problem is that if you select a value in a combobox, the value in the control stays highlighted unless you tap on another control and bring the focus to it. If you don't change the focus of the controls and move to the next page, the value in that combobox is lost. This problem didn't exist in vb.net 2003 and I haven't been able to progammatically change the focus without losing the chosen value in the combobox. I could save the value in a string, but since this wasn't necessary in 2003, I was trying not to do it now.

Thanks for helping with this.

smartpi at 2007-8-30 >