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

Set DropdownStyle Property to Simple

Add below code to to KeyPress event of ComboBox

private void comboBoxName_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
    e.Handled = true;
    return;
}

Add below code to to KeyDown event of ComboBox

private void comboBoxName_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
    e.Handled = true;
    return;
}