Populating a ComboBox using C#

Question

I would like to populate a combobox with the following:

Visible item / Item Value

English / En

Italian / It

Spainish / Sp 

etc...         


        

Answer 1

  Language[] items = new Language[]{new Language("English", "En"),
                new Language("Italian", "It")};

            languagesCombo.ValueMember = "Alias";
            languagesCombo.DisplayMember = "FullName";
            languagesCombo.DataSource = items.ToList();

            languagesCombo.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList;

 class Language
    {
        public string FullName { get; set; }
        public string Alias { get; set; }

        public Language(string fullName, string alias)
        {
            this.FullName = fullName;
            this.Alias = alias;
        }
    }

By making your drop down box "read-only" I am assuming you want to prevent user's typing in other options as opposed to being fully read-only where users cannot select a value??

If you wanted it to be fully read-only you could set the enabled property to be false.

Answer 2

If you simply want to add it without creating a new class try this:

// WPF
<ComboBox Name="language" Loaded="language_Loaded" /> 


// C# code
private void language_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    List<String> language= new List<string>();
    language.Add("English");
    language.Add("Spanish");
    language.Add("ect"); 
    this.chartReviewComboxBox.ItemsSource = language;
}

I suggest an xml file with all your languages that you will support that way you do not have to be dependent on c# I would definitly create a class for languge like the above programmer suggest.

Answer 3

What you could do is create a new class, similar to @Gregoire's example, however, you would want to override the ToString() method so it appears correctly in the combo box e.g.

public class Language
{
    private string _name;
    private string _code;

    public Language(string name, string code)
    {
        _name = name;
        _code = code;
    }

    public string Name { get { return _name; }  }
    public string Code { get { return _code; } }
    public override void ToString()
    {
        return _name;
    }
}

Answer 4

Define a class

public class Language
{
     public string Name { get; set; }
     public string Value { get; set; }
}

then...

//Build a list
var dataSource = new List<Language>();
dataSource.Add(new Language() { Name = "blah", Value = "blah" });
dataSource.Add(new Language() { Name = "blah", Value = "blah" });
dataSource.Add(new Language() { Name = "blah", Value = "blah" });

//Setup data binding
this.comboBox1.DataSource = dataSource;
this.comboBox1.DisplayMember = "Name";
this.comboBox1.ValueMember = "Value";

// make it readonly
this.comboBox1.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList;