AutoComplete TextBox Control

Question

I want to have a textbox control that suggests and append values from a database in a Windows application with C# 2008 and LINQ.

I do it with a combobox but I can\'t

Answer 1

of course it depends on how you implement it but perhaps this is a good start:

using System.Windows.Forms;

public class AutoCompleteTextBox : TextBox {

    private string[] database;//put here the strings of the candidates of autocomplete
    private bool changingText = false;

    protected override void OnTextChanged (EventArgs e) {
        if(!changingText && database != null) {
            //searching the first candidate
            string typed = this.Text.Substring(0,this.SelectionStart);
            string candidate = null;
            for(int i = 0; i < database.Length; i++)
                if(database[i].Substring(0,this.SelectionStart) == typed) {
                    candidate = database[i].Substring(this.SelectionStart,database[i].Length);
                    break;
                }
            if(candidate != null) {
                changingText = true;
                this.Text = typed+candidate;
                this.SelectionStart = typed.Length;
                this.SelectionLength = candidate.Length;
            }
        }
        else if(changingText)
            changingText = false;
        base.OnTextChanged(e);
    }

}

I'm not sure this is working very well, but I think the base of this code is good enough.