Getting bound ComboBox selected item text

Hi Folks

I have a Combobox populated with MAC address strings from a SQL server DB (using Entity Framwork)


However when getting the text of the selected item to use in a new L2E query the only way that seems to work is to use ComboBox.Text


But when I do this, when the form loads the label text is immediately set to the first item in the list instead of just being left blank, as the ComboBox is (as I set its index to -1 in Form1.Load)

Is there a better way of getting the selected string, that is the *actual* string *currently* selected

EDIT: Just noted that this does not occur if I remove the If from the selectedIndexChanged event... does this mean that the event is firing on form load but before the form.load event sub runs?