Data-bound comboboxes refusing to release focus

[Wingot]

Hey,

I have a view to a database that I have created for Client Maintenance. It has
a number of fields, but the important ones are Medical Condition, Bill To, and
Country.

I have a couple of external tables: One for Countries that store each Country
as a ID (char(2)), and Name (varchar(50)) pair; One for Medical Conditions,
using ID (int) and Name (varchar(50)). Also, the BillTo field refers back to
the same table that is being displayed, although using another BindingSource.

What I have found is that, when I link up the datasource, display member,
value member, and selected value using the appropriate values, the comboboxes
have the correct values, and can be set to these perfectly fine. However, both
the Medical Condition and the BillTo comboboxes, once the value is changed,
refuse to release the focus. The intriguing thing is that the Country combobox
does work perfectly fine, and this value can be changed and then lose focus,
and can even be saved, without issue. Hence I can't see why the exact same
process is not working for BillTo and Medical Condition

The only difference I can see is that the Value field of the datasource is an
integer for the two that are failing but char values for the Country, but I
would think this would only cause a problem on saving.

Has anyone come across this issue and able to give advice as to the problem?

Regards,
Wingot

[Linda Liu[MSFT]]

Hi Wingot,

Based on my understanding, you bind three ComboBoxes in the same way but
only one ComboBox works properly and the other two ComboBoxes refuse to
release the focus once the selected value is changed. If I'm off base,
please feel free to let me know.

From the above phenomenon, it looks like the two ComboBoxes don't pass the
validation. Have you handled the Validating event of the two ComboBoxes and
set the CancelEventArgs .Cancel property to false under some conditions?

If the problem still exists, please send me a simple project that could
just reproduce the problem. To get my actual email address, remove 'online'
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Sincerely,
Linda Liu
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[Linda Liu[MSFT]]

Hi Wingot,

How about the problem now?

If the problem is still not solved, please feel free to let me know.

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Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support