Display the combo box items

[babitha162]

I have a combobox with a list of items in it. Now when the user enters a character I want the combox show the list of items that starts with the specified character. Could someone please help me solve this problem.

Thanks in Advance

[tlhintoq]

Please show us what you have tried so far, so we can better help you with where your code is going wrong.

[truezplaya]

i think i understand what you are trying to do, Your trying to search for each item within the combo box that contains the letters that are typed in to the combo box,

Where abouts are you getting the items from? A database?

If so you could just make a simple sql statement and everytime the textchanged event is launched fire up the sql

another way would be to have a list of your items on the text changed event
clear all the current items out of the combo
start a for loop to go through the list
if the item in that list contains whatever has been typed in so combo1.text
add it to the items of the combo

[babitha162]

i think i understand what you are trying to do, Your trying to search for each item within the combo box that contains the letters that are typed in to the combo box,

Where abouts are you getting the items from? A database?

If so you could just make a simple sql statement and everytime the textchanged event is launched fire up the sql

another way would be to have a list of your items on the text changed event
clear all the current items out of the combo
start a for loop to go through the list
if the item in that list contains whatever has been typed in so combo1.text
add it to the items of the combo

Thanks for your suggestion

[aryanbs]

One more information, textbox and combobox support autocomple feature, look at their property, you might be intersted in combobox with autocomplete source set to listitems, and autocomplete mode to SuggestAppend or Append or anything like that

[babitha162]

Display the combo box items

One more information, textbox and combobox support autocomple feature, look at their property, you might be intersted in combobox with autocomplete source set to listitems, and autocomplete mode to SuggestAppend or Append or anything like that

Thanks for your Suggestion
I have set the AutoCompleteSou rce and AutoCompleteMod e properties of the combox. Now it displays the dropdown list and allows me to
select the item from the list but is not allowing to enter a new item to the combobox text field.

Private Sub cbcity_TextChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cbcity.TextChanged
        If cbcity.Text <> "" Then
            cbcity.AutoCompleteSource = AutoCompleteSource.ListItems
            cbcity.AutoCompleteMode = AutoCompleteMode.SuggestAppend
        End If
    End Sub

Please tell me where I have made the mistake

[aryanbs]

Dont use textchanged event, just use those code in the beginning or after binding the data
combobox.DataSo urce= YouDataSource

and those 2 lines after that

[babitha162]

Dont use textchanged event, just use those code in the beginning or after binding the data
combobox.DataSo urce= YouDataSource

and those 2 lines after that

Thanks. Now its working fine