Autocomplete Combobox Problem

[zcashero]

I am making a WinForm in C# and am trying to create a combo box that will let the user type in their input but it will force them to only be able to type something that is in the list. I have everything working except for one problem that seems to be a problem with the actual Combobox code.

To duplicate it, just create a combo box, add some items to it and then I set these three properties in my Initialize() function:

comboBox1.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.Simple;
comboBox1.AutoCompleteSource = AutoCompleteSource.ListItems;
comboBox1.AutoCompleteMode = AutoCompleteMode.SuggestAppend;

It seems that the "suggest" part of the autocomplete does not work with combo boxes that have a Simple DropDownStyle. If you type first letter of one of the items and then click on it, the text in the combo box just gets cleared. This is only a problem with the Simple combo boxes, though.

I can't find any information on this. Anybody know anything about this?

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[kenobewan]

Here are a couple of posts that may help:
Typing in a ComboBox & AutoCompleteStringCollection problem