Comments on: WinForms ComboBox with values like the WebForms DropDownList

By: NahuelGQ

NahuelGQ — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:11:03 +0000

Hi guys:
Another way to get the same behaviour is to overriding the “ToString” method.

Like this:

public class ComboBoxItem
{
private string _value;
private string _text;

public string Value { get { return _value; } }
public string Text { get { return _text ; } }

public ComboBoxItem (string cValue, cText)
{
this._value = cValue;
this._text = cText;
}

public override string ToString()
{
return this.Text;
}
}

NahuelGQ

sotto — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:00:15 +0000

new KeyValuePair(0, “zero”) that is !

sotto — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:59:20 +0000

If you’re using .NET 2.0 you can try this:

comboBox1.ValueMember = “Key”;
comboBox1.DisplayMember = “Value”;

comboBox1.Items.Add(new KeyValuePair(0, “zero”));
comboBox1.Items.Add(new KeyValuePair(1, “one”));

if using .NET 1.x i think there’s another class you could use (without the generics)… but can’t remember exactly.