ComboBox index Databind

[Kaikus]

Hi! I have a dataset colum wich values ara simple integers. I want to create a ComboBox with some string values, and databind the dataset as an INDEX to them. So, dataset has 1,2,3,4 my Combobox has "myString1", "myString2" (I can popolate manually or progrmatically, but theese values are NOT provided by the dataset) I want to databind my dataset to my combobox so that when dataset value is 2, the combobox show "myString2". I think it should be easy... but i'm not too used to combobox neither databind Thanks!

[The Man from U N C L E]

If you set the datasource for a combobox then the datasource must contain both the ValueMember and the DisplayMember otherwise it will not work. in order to databind the ValueMember must point to a corresponding value in the datasource eg. Your datasource for the combobox would be a datatable such as: ID VALUE ============= 1 myString1 2 myString2 Your dataset would have a column in the table (MyTable) containing the idStrings value for example.

MyCombo.DataSource = source;
MyCombo.ValueMember = "ID";
MyCombo.DisplayMember = "VALUE"

MyCombo.DataBindings.Add("SelectedValue", MyData, "idStrings")

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