How to make Combobox in winforms readonly

Question

I do not want the user to be able to change the value displayed in the combobox. I have been using Enabled = false but it grays out the text, so it is not very

Answer 1

The best thing I can suggest is to replace the combo-box with a read-only textbox (or just perhaps a label) - that way the user can still select/copy the value, etc.

Of course, another cheeky tactic would be to set the DropDownStyle to DropDownList, and just remove all other options - then the user has nothing else to pick ;-p