Drop Down Control Style and List Control Data Binding

The Drop Down Control and List Control are able to help developers to build amazing user interface for the drop down and list on the forms for their .NET Windows Forms projects. The DropDownList Control and List Control contain plenty of items and support auto complete, sorting, and filtering etc. It is also compatible with multi-line text in HTML style text formatting, checkboxes, and rich visualizations.

Drop Down List Control Styling

The Kettic Drop Down List Control provides the property, Drop Down Style, to edit the text area at the top of the control. If we want to edit the text area, we can set the Drop Down List Control as the default value, Drop Down, or display the text area as read-only by setting the Drop Down List Control as DropDownList.


this.dropDownList.DropDownStyle = Kettic.WinForm.DropDownStyle.DropDown;
this.dropDownList.DropDownStyle = Kettic.WinControls.dropDownStyle.DropDownList;

Data Binding List Control

The Kettic List WinForms Control provides the support of data binding. Users of the List control can easily bind data that will be displayed with the List WinForms Control to a data base source. Properties of data binding for the List Control include,

Data Source, this property allows developers to specify the data source that will be bound.
DisplayMember, this property allows developers to specify the specific data that will be displayed in a List WinForms Control.
ValueMember , this property allows developers to specify the specific data that will be returned as the value of the List WinForms Control.

List Control Data Source Property Setting

Data Source Property Setting

Open the Properties window and choose the Data Source property.
Click the drop down arrow so that all existing data sources on the form will be shown.
Click the Add Project Data Source link, add a data source to your project by follow the instructions in the Data Source Configuration Wizard.
Then we can use databases, web services, or objects as data sources.

DisplayMember Property Setting

Configure the DataSource property first
In the Properties window, choose a value for the property, DisplayMember, from the drop down list.

ValueMember Property Setting

Configure the DataSource property first
In the Properties window, choose a value for the property, ValueMember, from the drop down list.

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