ComboBox

Question

How do you read an xml file and bind one column's data to the ComboBox in C#? Are there different ways of doing this? Thanks in advance!

Satyapriya Nayak · Answer

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/6233/Populating-a-drop-down-control-from-an-XML-file

Uchiha Itachi · Answer

Never deal with the xml but I recently read something about the Multi-column ComboBox  it also mentioned the ComboBox data-binding  hope the following code can be a little help as reference: protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) { base .OnLoad(e); NwindDataSet nwindDataSet = new NwindDataSet(); CustomersTableAdapter customersTableAdapter = new CustomersTableAdapter(); customersTableAdapter.Fill(nwindDataSet.Products); this .ketticMultiColumnComboBox1.DataSource = nwindDataSet.Products; foreach (GridViewDataColumn column in this .ketticMultiColumnComboBox1.MultiColumnComboBoxElement.Columns) { column.BestFit(); } } void SetUpGrid() { KetticGridView gridViewControl = this .ketticMultiColumnComboBox1.EditorControl; gridViewControl.MasterTemplate.AutoGenerateColumns = false ; gridViewControl.Columns.Add( new GridViewTextBoxColumn( ProductID )); gridViewControl.Columns.Add( new GridViewTextBoxColumn( ProductName )); gridViewControl.Columns.Add( new GridViewTextBoxColumn( Amount )); gridViewControl.Columns.Add( new GridViewTextBoxColumn( Price )); }

Administrator · Answer

Mahesh Would you be so kind as to provide a working example of what this code would look like? string xmlFilePath = @C:\Documents and Settings\erakovsky\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\XML_Post\xml\RequestURL.xml; ds.ReadXml(xmlFilePathXmlReadMode.ReadSchema); .....???? Ultimately what I am trying to accomplish is to bind URL data from an xml file to a combo box drop down. Thanks!

Administrator · Answer

Fill an array or a DataTable from XML and bind it. There is no direct way to bind XML to a ComboBox.