[dba-VB] Combo box

John,

This was a very annoying issue when I started the move to .NET

Apart from buying custom controls, the only way I found to reproduce
multi-column combo/list boxes was to use a datagrid. 

Individual elements of the datagrid can then be accessed when a row or cell
is selected.

Regards,

Mike Robertson 

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[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of JWColby
Sent: Saturday, 28 April 2007 3:35 PM
To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-VB] Combo box

I am running into the issue of how to display multiple lines in a combo box.
IIRC this is a "no can do" in the combos in VB.Net but there must be common
workarounds.  
 
For example I need to allow the user to select a zip code, but he really
needs to see the zip AND the city.  Furthermore my code is going to need to
load a record based on that zip code to get lat/long.
 
So, is there a way other than using a concatenation of the zip and the city
to display both in the combo?  If I do a concatenation, then I can no longer
use the zip to lookup a record in a recordset since it now has city data in
the string.
 
John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com
 
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