Combobox in C# : how to add for each Item a Tag ?

[youssef]

Hi, I looking to storing some datas to a combobox with for each datas a would like to store a Tag value. Best regrads youssef

[Skynyrd]

Create a custom object collection where your objects show all the info u need through properties. Then set the collection as ur combo's datasource and set the displaymember and valuemember to your object's properties (Name and Tag for example). If u dont want to go through all that, it might be easier to just store all objects + info in the necessary fields of a datatable (that would solve ur custom object collection) and proceed the same way as before.

[Heath Stewart]

For more information and an example of what Skynyrd mentioned, read about the MappingName Property[^] for the DataGridTableStyle class in the .NET Framework SDK. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Sustained Engineering Microsoft [My Articles] [My Blog]

[Luis Alonso Ramos]

You can add any object as an item to a ComboBox, and to display it, the ComboBox calls the object's ToString method. So, create a MyComboItem class that contians two (or more) properties, Text and Tag, and override ToString to return the contents of the Text property. When you get an item from the ComboBox's Items collection, don't forget to do the appropiate cast. -- LuisR

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