How to create a drop down menu in WinForms and C#

Question

I am new to using Visual Studio/WinForms/C#

I am trying to create a simple drop down menu where each item can have a value and a label.

This is what I would do

Answer 1

ComboBox displays the result returns from the ToString call, so you can define a Display class that wraps value and display text and add those to your combobox.

That is:

 public class ItemDisplay
 {
     private readonly string m_displayText;

     public ItemDisplay(TValue value, String displayText)
    {
        this.Value = value;
        m_displayText = displayText;
    }

    public TValue Value { get; set; }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return m_displayText;
    }
}

and add items to your combobox as follows:

 comboBox1.Items.Add(new ItemDisplay(1, "FirstValue"));
 comboBox1.Items.Add(new ItemDisplay(2, "Second"));
 comboBox1.Items.Add(new ItemDisplay(3, "Third"));