Syste.Drawing.Color bound to a dropdown list

[Kevin Johnson]

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I have an ASP.NET datagrid written in C#. When editing my datagrid it contains one dropdown list and 4 normal textboxes

I need the dropdown list to contain all of the colors in the System.Drawing.Color class for selection. I am unsure how to go about this. Could anyone help and provide coded examples

Any help highly appreciated

Thank

Kevin

[Manohar Kamath [MVP]]

Perhaps you could use Reflection to detect all the colors -- since there is
no collection of colors, and the colors are merely static members of
System.Drawing.Color class. Here's an example of how to use reflection:

http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tut...utorial_id=297

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"Kevin Johnson" <mc***@at1.uk.com> wrote in message
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Hi

I have an ASP.NET datagrid written in C#. When editing my datagrid it contains one dropdown list and 4 normal textboxes.
I need the dropdown list to contain all of the colors in the System.Drawing.Color class for selection. I am unsure how to go about this.
Could anyone help and provide coded examples?
Any help highly appreciated.

Thanks

Kevin

[Joe Fallon]

You can add an Enumeration to a cbo or listbox.
This enumeration lists the known colors in the System.Drawing namespace.
Public Enum KnownColor

'air code:
==========================================
'use an Enum in a cbo:
Dim colorsEnum As Type = GetType(KnownColor)
Dim mColor As String
For Each mColor In [Enum].GetNames(colorsEnum)
Me.cboColors.Items.Add(mColor)
Next mColor
==========================================
'Use an Enum in a listbox
Dim colorsEnum As Type = GetType(Colors)
Dim mColor As String
Dim alColors As New ArrayList
For Each mColor In [Enum].GetNames(colorsEnum)
alColors.Add(New DictionaryEntry(mColor,
GetEnumDescription(CType([Enum].Parse(GetType(Colors), mColor), Colors))))
Next mColor

Me.lstColors.DataSource = alColors
Me.lstColors.DataTextField = "Value"
Me.lstColors.DataValueField = "Key"
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Joe Fallon

"Kevin Johnson" <mc***@at1.uk.com> wrote in message
news:64**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi

I have an ASP.NET datagrid written in C#. When editing my datagrid it contains one dropdown list and 4 normal textboxes.
I need the dropdown list to contain all of the colors in the System.Drawing.Color class for selection. I am unsure how to go about this.
Could anyone help and provide coded examples?
Any help highly appreciated.

Thanks

Kevin