C# ComboBox Control

ComboBox SelectedItem

How to retrieve value from ComboBox

If you want to retrieve the displayed item to a string variable , you can code like this

How to remove an item from ComboBox

You can remove items from a combobox in two ways. You can remove item at a the specified index or giving a specified item by name.

The above code will remove the second item from the combobox.

The above code will remove the item "Friday" from the combobox.

DropDownStyle

The DropDownStyle property specifies whether the list is always displayed or whether the list is displayed in a drop-down. The DropDownStyle property also specifies whether the text portion can be edited.

ComboBox Selected Value

How to set the selected item in a comboBox

You can display selected item in a combobox in two ways.

ComboBox DataSource Property

How to populate a combo box with a DataSet ?

You can Programmatically Binding DataSource to ComboBox in a simple way..

Consider an sql string like...."select au_id,au_lname from authors";

Make a datasource and bind it like the following...

Combobox SelectedIndexChanged event

The SelectedIndexChanged event of a combobox fire when you change the slected item in a combobox. If you want to do something when you change the selection, you can write the program on SelectedIndexChanged event. From the following code you can understand how to set values in the SelectedIndexChanged event of a combobox. Drag and drop two combobox on the Form and copy and paste the following source code.

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ComboBox Databinding

You can bind data to a Combobox from various resources like Dataset, List, Enum, Dictionary etc. From the following link you can study more about ... ComboBox Databinding

ComboBox Default Value

How to set a default value for a Combo Box

You can set combobox default value by using SelectedIndex property

Above code set 6th item as combobox default value

ComboBox readonly

How to make a combobox read only

You can make a ComboBox readonly, that means a user cannot write in a combo box but he can select the given items, in two ways. By default, DropDownStyle property of a Combobox is DropDown. In this case user can enter values to combobox. When you change the DropDownStyle property to DropDownList, the Combobox will become read only and user can not enter values to combobox. Second method, if you want the combobox completely read only, you can set comboBox1.Enabled = false.

Autocomplete ComboBox

From the latest version of Visual Studio, some of the controls support Autocomplete feature including the ComboBox controls. From the following link you can see how to make .... Autocomplete ComboBox

ComboBox Example

The following C# source code add seven days in a week to a combo box while load event of a Windows Form and int Button click event it displays the selected text in the Combo Box.