Can ComboBoxItem holds object value?

From my experience in silverlight, their comboBoxItem can holds object data, so I can do like ComboBox.selectedItem and cast to the data object type and get the databinding object out.

But in Asp.Net, the ComboBoxItem seems like only have Text and Valu开发者_Go百科e property for databinding. I wonder if there is a way that I can get the databinding object out? Not with searching the datasource and find the object by Text and Value...

Thanks in advance.

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You can try this in the code behind with VB...

CType(ddlDropDownList.Items(ddlDropDownList.SelectedIndex), ObjectType)