Is it possible to have intellisense on InputBox

Question

In my Tic Tac Toe game I ask the players for their names and I ask them whether they want it to be saved. The next time they start the game I want the InputBox to display some sort of auto complete or IntelliSense to appear.

QUESTION :

How do I get auto complete or IntelliSense to appear on InputBox

Just for in case. I included :

using Microsoft.VisualBasic;

in my code.

Answer 1

In order to use an "Intellisense" by which I'm guessing you mean "AutoComplete", you can simply set up a TextBox and assign its AutoComplete... properties. The ones you'll need in particular are:

1. AutoCompleteCustomSource - Which is just a collection, so you can add your own list of Strings to use as a source. That way you wont have to worry about a DataSet or any kind of database access, if you don't want to go that way.
2. AutoCompleteMode - Which tells the control what type of AutoComplete input box it should be.
3. AutoCompleteSource - Which in your case, if you use #1 as the solution, you'd set this to CustomSource.

edit

As an example:

textBox1.AutoCompleteMode = AutoCompleteMode.Suggest;
textBox1.AutoCompleteSource = AutoCompleteSource.CustomSource;
AutoCompleteStringCollection items = new AutoCompleteStringCollection();
items.Add("Save");
items.Add("Don't Save");

textBox1.AutoCompleteCustomSource = items;

edit 2

As requested, here is how to read a text file line by line and use the data within as the custom source for your AutoComplete

string line = "";
AutoCompleteStringCollection items = new AutoCompleteStringCollection();

// Read the file and display it line by line.
System.IO.StreamReader file = new System.IO.StreamReader("YOURFILE.txt");
while((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
{
    if(!String.IsNullOrEmpty(line))
    {
        items.Add(line);
    }
}

file.Close();

Hope this helps!