Populating a ComboBox using C#

Question

I would like to populate a combobox with the following:

Visible item / Item Value

English / En

Italian / It

Spainish / Sp 

etc....

Any help please?

Also it is possible that after populating the Combobox, to make it read only?

Answer 1

Define a class

public class Language
{
     public string Name { get; set; }
     public string Value { get; set; }
}

then...

//Build a list
var dataSource = new List<Language>();
dataSource.Add(new Language() { Name = "blah", Value = "blah" });
dataSource.Add(new Language() { Name = "blah", Value = "blah" });
dataSource.Add(new Language() { Name = "blah", Value = "blah" });

//Setup data binding
this.comboBox1.DataSource = dataSource;
this.comboBox1.DisplayMember = "Name";
this.comboBox1.ValueMember = "Value";

// make it readonly
this.comboBox1.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList;