ToolstripComboBox

[Moorzee]

Has anyone ever used this as a normal combobox i.e with a diplsymember and valuemember?

I have been killing myself with this for a while now!

There is an underlying ComboBox which I have set datasource,displaymember, and valuemember but cannot use.......

Please someone put me out of my misery. Toes are curling up in frustration and grinding my teeth!!!

Ta.

 

[JohnH]

About combo binding, ToolStripComboBox class has got a ComboBox property that expose the regular ComboBox control it hosts (doc: "to get properties, methods, and events that have not been wrapped"), which should allow you to treat it as such also.

Another option is to use the ToolStripControlHost to add a regular ComboBox control, which you bind.

 

[netnewb]

YES! That works!

JohnH, thanks! That worked.

Just use toolstripcombobox1.combobox.datasource, .valuemember, and .displaymember

I search about 6 google hits before I found this.

 

[timh]

I tried the same thing and can confirm that the items are not displayed. I checked the DataSource property of the control at various points and it was set to a table but no items were displayed. I have no idea why this would be the case but I'd agree that it must be a bug. You should report it to Microsoft but in the meantime you could get around it by just adding the items manually and using a keyed collection to setup the correspondence between the two properties if required.

Sorry to "bump" such an old post, but I am curious to know whether this "bug" has ever been addressed? I'm having the exact same issue in VS Express for Desktop.

 

[JohnH]

The BindingContext property of the hosted ComboBox is not initialized when it is added as subitem in toolstrip, set it to for example same object as the forms BindingContext property - that is default for comboboxes you add directly to a form and for strip top-level ToolStripComboBoxes.