combox box control question

[djc]

I am tinkering with vb.net in visual studio 2005... I remember way back in
vb4 days that you could have multicolumn comboboxes... I think. I could be
wrong. I could not see anywhere in the VS2005 combobox properties where to
make this happen? like a 'columns' property or something? I only saw ways to
control display vs value for a single column combobox and that seemed to
only be when bound to some kind of datasource like a database table.

anyone care to enlighten this poor fool?

[Tim Wilson]

You can use the method outlined at the link below to host controls in a
popup window when the ComboBox is dropped down. If you want multiple columns
you could host a ListView or a DataGridView.
http://blogs.msdn.com/jfoscoding/arc...03/384430.aspx

There are also articles that describe how to create a multi column
appearance in a ComboBox.
http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/multicolumncombo.asp
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/combob...olumncombo.asp

--
Tim Wilson
..NET Compact Framework MVP

"djc" <no***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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I am tinkering with vb.net in visual studio 2005... I remember way back in
vb4 days that you could have multicolumn comboboxes... I think. I could be
wrong. I could not see anywhere in the VS2005 combobox properties where to
make this happen? like a 'columns' property or something? I only saw ways to control display vs value for a single column combobox and that seemed to
only be when bound to some kind of datasource like a database table.

anyone care to enlighten this poor fool?

[djc]

thanks, I'll check them out.

"Tim Wilson" <TIM(UNDERSCORE)WILSON(AT)ROGERS(PERIOD)COM> wrote in message
news:Or**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

You can use the method outlined at the link below to host controls in a
popup window when the ComboBox is dropped down. If you want multiple columns you could host a ListView or a DataGridView.
http://blogs.msdn.com/jfoscoding/arc...03/384430.aspx

There are also articles that describe how to create a multi column
appearance in a ComboBox.
http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/multicolumncombo.asp
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/combob...olumncombo.asp

--
Tim Wilson
.NET Compact Framework MVP

"djc" <no***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:u5**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

I am tinkering with vb.net in visual studio 2005... I remember way back in vb4 days that you could have multicolumn comboboxes... I think. I could be wrong. I could not see anywhere in the VS2005 combobox properties where to make this happen? like a 'columns' property or something? I only saw

ways to

control display vs value for a single column combobox and that seemed to
only be when bound to some kind of datasource like a database table.

anyone care to enlighten this poor fool?