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Properties of The Combobox Control: SR - No. Property & Description

The document describes the ComboBox control in Microsoft Visual Studio. It provides details on populating the ComboBox with items, commonly used properties of the ComboBox like AllowSelection and Items, methods like BeginUpdate and EndUpdate, and events like DropDown and SelectedIndexChanged. It then provides an example code to populate a ComboBox with items, send the selected item to a list box, sort the ComboBox items, and display the selected item in a label.

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Properties of The Combobox Control: SR - No. Property & Description

The document describes the ComboBox control in Microsoft Visual Studio. It provides details on populating the ComboBox with items, commonly used properties of the ComboBox like AllowSelection and Items, methods like BeginUpdate and EndUpdate, and events like DropDown and SelectedIndexChanged. It then provides an example code to populate a ComboBox with items, send the selected item to a list box, sort the ComboBox items, and display the selected item in a label.

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The ComboBox control is used to display a drop-down list of various items.

It is a
combination of a text box in which the user enters an item and a drop-down list from
which the user selects an item.
Let's create a combo box by dragging a ComboBox control from the Toolbox and
dropping it on the form.

You can populate the list box items either from the properties window or at runtime. To
add items to a ComboBox, select the ComboBox control and go to the properties window
for the properties of this control. Click the ellipses (...) button next to the Items property.
This opens the String Collection Editor dialog box, where you can enter the values one
at a line.

Properties of the ComboBox Control


The following are some of the commonly used properties of the ComboBox control −

Sr.No. Property & Description

1
AllowSelection
Gets a value indicating whether the list enables selection of list items.
2
AutoCompleteCustomSource
Gets or sets a custom System.Collections .Specialized.StringCollection to use when
the AutoCompleteSourceproperty is set to CustomSource.

3
AutoCompleteMode
Gets or sets an option that controls how automatic completion works for the
ComboBox.

4
AutoCompleteSource
Gets or sets a value specifying the source of complete strings used for automatic
completion.

5
DataBindings
Gets the data bindings for the control.

6
DataManager
Gets the CurrencyManager associated with this control.

7
DataSource
Gets or sets the data source for this ComboBox.

8
DropDownHeight
Gets or sets the height in pixels of the drop-down portion of the ComboBox.

9
DropDownStyle
Gets or sets a value specifying the style of the combo box.

10
DropDownWidth
Gets or sets the width of the of the drop-down portion of a combo box.

11
DroppedDown
Gets or sets a value indicating whether the combo box is displaying its drop-down
portion.
12
FlatStyle
Gets or sets the appearance of the ComboBox.

13
ItemHeight
Gets or sets the height of an item in the combo box.

14
Items
Gets an object representing the collection of the items contained in this ComboBox.

15
MaxDropDownItems
Gets or sets the maximum number of items to be displayed in the drop-down part of
the combo box.

16
MaxLength
Gets or sets the maximum number of characters a user can enter in the editable area
of the combo box.

17
SelectedIndex
Gets or sets the index specifying the currently selected item.

18
SelectedItem
Gets or sets currently selected item in the ComboBox.

19
SelectedText
Gets or sets the text that is selected in the editable portion of a ComboBox.

20
SelectedValue
Gets or sets the value of the member property specified by the ValueMember
property.

21
SelectionLength
Gets or sets the number of characters selected in the editable portion of the combo
box.
22
SelectionStart
Gets or sets the starting index of text selected in the combo box.

23
Sorted
Gets or sets a value indicating whether the items in the combo box are sorted.

24
Text
Gets or sets the text associated with this control.

Methods of the ComboBox Control


The following are some of the commonly used methods of the ComboBox control −

Sr.No. Method Name & Description

1
BeginUpdate
Prevents the control from drawing until the EndUpdate method is called, while items
are added to the combo box one at a time.

2
EndUpdate
Resumes drawing of a combo box, after it was turned off by the BeginUpdate method.

3
FindString
Finds the first item in the combo box that starts with the string specified as an
argument.

4
FindStringExact
Finds the first item in the combo box that exactly matches the specified string.

5
SelectAll
Selects all the text in the editable area of the combo box.

Events of the ComboBox Control


The following are some of the commonly used events of the ComboBox control −

Sr.No. Event & Description

1
DropDown
Occurs when the drop-down portion of a combo box is displayed.

2
DropDownClosed
Occurs when the drop-down portion of a combo box is no longer visible.

3
DropDownStyleChanged
Occurs when the DropDownStyle property of the ComboBox has changed.

4
SelectedIndexChanged
Occurs when the SelectedIndex property of a ComboBox control has changed.

5
SelectionChangeCommitted
Occurs when the selected item has changed and the change appears in the combo
box.

Example
In this example, let us fill a combo box with various items, get the selected items in the
combo box and show them in a list box and sort the items.
Drag and drop a combo box to store the items, a list box to display the selected items,
four button controls to add to the list box with selected items, to fill the combo box, to
sort the items and to clear the combo box list, respectively.
Add a label control that would display the selected item.
Add the following code in the code editor window −
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles
MyBase.Load
' Set the caption bar text of the form.
Me.Text = "tutorialspont.com"
End Sub

'sends the selected items to the list box


Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
Handles Button1.Click
If ComboBox1.SelectedIndex > -1 Then
Dim sindex As Integer
sindex = ComboBox1.SelectedIndex
Dim sitem As Object
sitem = ComboBox1.SelectedItem
ListBox1.Items.Add(sitem)
End If
End Sub

'populates the list


Private Sub Button2_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
Handles Button2.Click
ComboBox1.Items.Clear()
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Safety")
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Security")
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Governance")
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Good Music")
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Good Movies")
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Good Books")
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Education")
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Roads")
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Health")
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Food for all")
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Shelter for all")
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Industrialisation")
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Peace")
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Liberty")
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Freedom of Speech")
ComboBox1.Text = "Select from..."
End Sub
'sorting the list

Private Sub Button3_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)


ComboBox1.Sorted = True
End Sub
'clears the list

Private Sub Button4_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)


ComboBox1.Items.Clear()
End Sub
'displaying the selected item on the label

Private Sub ComboBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(sender As Object, e


As EventArgs) _
Handles ListBox1.SelectedIndexChanged
Label1.Text = ComboBox1.SelectedItem.ToString()
End Sub
End Class

When the above code is executed and run using Start button available at the Microsoft
Visual Studio tool bar, it will show the following window −
Click on various buttons to check the actions performed by each −

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