The ComboBox ASP.NET AJAX Control is a powerful and advanced drop-down component that is specifically designed to display data in a textbox with a list of available options. And in this overview page, we will introduce this web ComboBox Control from two main aspects, which are its advanced functions and its structure.

In this section, we list its main features. And you can view more detailed information about the advanced features that this ASP.NET AJAX control has owned if you visit the links we just attached.

• Offer rich properties for users to fully customize the settings of asp.net combobox items.
• Provide advanced functions for users to better displaying items. For instance, you can use the Filter function to display all items that contain the searching text.
• You can easily arrange the available items using the sorting function.
• Support validation functionality.
• Allow end users to auto complete the combobox items via client-side auto-complete function.
• Support simple CheckBox feature.
• Provide options for you to choose best output mode with the Render Modes feature.
• Use load-on-demand for faster loading the items.
• Enable users to easily change and modify the template of combobox item and the header & footer.
• Provide strong binding functions for users to bind combobox to several data sources, like data binding to arraylist, data binding to datasource and data binding to xml data.
• Offer client-side events and server-side APIs for users to better customize the combobox.

The asp.net ComboBox control contains an input area for displaying selected item, a drop-down toggle for displaying or hiding the drop-down list, a drop-down list for demonstrating a set of items and a collection of items for users to choose from.

If you do not know how to begin a combobox creating application using our ASP.NET AJAX ComboBox control, please visit this tutorial on how to get started with ComboBox Control.