Accessing parts of combobox

[TJones8]

Hi all.
I'm making a custom combobox and for ease of use deriving my ccontrol directly from the ComboBox class.
Is there any way I can access the button part of the combobox in order to show\hide it (ie if there are no list items, then hide the dropdown button).

If it's a no then i'm gonna have to go back to creating my own out of text boxes and buttons.

thx

P.S. i'm using VB.NET

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[PauloRico]

Why not put a TextBox on your control that is visible only when there are no items in your combobox.

The Property Get to get your value could then check the visibilty of the TextBox to determine whether to return the value from it or the combobox.