How to create multi-column combo box in vb.net?

[ShonaliB]

Hi,

How to create multi-column combo box in vb.net?

This combo box should have 2 or more columns like that!

[Praetor]

This is a simple example of how to display table values (i.e. multiple columns) in a combo box. For the dropdown window, a form with a ListView docked to fill can be used. The MultiColumnCombobox class is inherited from the System.Windows.Forms.Combobox class.

protected override void OnDropDown(System.EventArgs e){
    Form parent = this.FindForm();
    if(this.dataTable != null || this.dataRows!= null){
        MultiColumnComboPopup popup = new 
                            MultiColumnComboPopup(this.dataTable,
                            ref this.selectedRow,columnsToDisplay);
        popup.AfterRowSelectEvent+=
                            new AfterRowSelectEventHandler
                            (MultiColumnComboBox_AfterSelectEvent);
        popup.Location = new Point(parent.Left + 
                            this.Left + 4 ,parent.Top + 
                            this.Bottom + this.Height);
        popup.Show();

The OnDropDown event of the ComboBox is overridden to display our popup from. The popup form should never be a modal, because the popup has to close, if the user decides to click elsewhere other than the grid on the dropdown form. To check where the user has selected something, I use the popup.AfterRowSelectEvent, to fire an event on the MulticolumnComboBox. To use the MulticolumnComboBox do the following:

multiColumnComboBox1.Table = dtable;//DataTable

//Column to display after selection

multiColumnComboBox1.DisplayMember = "Band";
multiColumnComboBox1.ColumnsToDisplay = new 
    string[]{"Band","Song","Album"};//columns to display

//in the dropdown grid

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/combob...lumncombo.aspx

I hope this helps you!

[kelfro]

If U have ur field names as follows:
Firsname Lasname ,ID
U need to know that, There 're two types of combo box
1. A combo box -Normal
2. a data combo


Thee First one, u will have it as
yo will have to decare a recordset to select Firstname, lastname and a id from the table that house those records:

eg
dim rst as new adodb.recordset
dim conn as new adodb.connection
conn.open("dsn=datasourcename")
set rst = conn.execute ("select Firstname, lastname ,Id from tablename ")

do until rst.eof
combo1.Additem rst!firstname +' '+ rst!Lastname +' ' rst!ID
rst.movenext
loop


The second one uses Ado data control

Where u will have the Ado datacontrol selecting as thus:
select firstname +' '+ rst!Lastname +' ' rst!ID from tablename

i hope u will get it