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

I've handled it by subclassing the ComboBox to add a ReadOnly property that hides itself when set and displays a ReadOnly TextBox on top containing the same Text:

class ComboBoxReadOnly : ComboBox
{
    public ComboBoxReadOnly()
    {
        textBox = new TextBox();
        textBox.ReadOnly = true;
        textBox.Visible = false;
    }

    private TextBox textBox;

    private bool readOnly = false;

    public bool ReadOnly
    {
        get { return readOnly; }
        set
        {
            readOnly = value;

            if (readOnly)
            {
                this.Visible = false;
                textBox.Text = this.Text;
                textBox.Location = this.Location;
                textBox.Size = this.Size;
                textBox.Visible = true;

                if (textBox.Parent == null)
                    this.Parent.Controls.Add(textBox);
            }
            else
            {
                this.Visible = true;
                this.textBox.Visible = false;
            }
        }
    }
}