I've been searching for the same thing, apparently, the comboBox as addin does not seem to work as usual as on a windows form (suh as "SelectedItem", SelectedIndex, SelectedValue, etc.).
So, my work around it, was to create a form and Add a comboBox on a form instead of having it as an addin.
Not really convenient but that is a work around!
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