Binding a generic List to a ComboBox

Question

I have a ComboBox and I want to bind a generic List to it. Can anyone see why the code below won\'t work? The binding source has data in it, but it won\'t fill the ComboBox

Answer 1

Here is a rather simple way that doesn't use BindingSource:

first, add the generic list of string, perhaps to a "consts/utils" class:

public static List Months = new List
{
   "Jan",
   "Feb",
   "Mar",
   "Apr",
   "May",
   "Jun",
   "Jul",
   "Aug",
   "Sep",
   "Oct",
   "Nov",
   "Dec"
};

And here's how you add those strings to a combo box:

comboBoxMonth.Items.AddRange(UsageRptConstsAndUtils.Months.ToArray