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

Simplest way in code:

instead of adding methods for KeyPress or KeyDown, add this code on 'Form1_Load' method:

comboBox1.KeyPress += (sndr, eva) => eva.Handled = true;

or

comboBox1.KeyDown += (sndr, eva) => eva.SuppressKeyPress = true;

(sndr, eva) is for (object sender, EventArgs e)