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c#winformscomboboxtoolstrip

Set Windows-Forms ComboSox DataSource to specific attributes of objects in a List

I have a List of Accounts:

List<Account> accountList;

Each Account has a ID.

I want to set all of the Accounts IDs in the accountList into a Windows-Forms ComboBox. How can I achieve that?

EDIT

Soultion using Linq:

myCombobox.DataSource = accountList.Select(x => x.ID);
Solution

  • You can add the ID's to the Combobox with a foreach loop:

    foreach (Account account in accountList) 
{
    comboboxName.Items.Add(account.id);
}

    If you want the items being added at the start of the application, write the code in the constructor of your forms class:

    public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    WriteIdIntoCombobox();
}

    I put the foreach into the WriteIdIntoCombobox() method so that I could call it somewhere else in the code if I needed to.