Binding a combo box to hash table or dictionary class

[imterpsfan3]

I'm looking for a way to bind a combo box to a hash table or dictionary class. I'm basically trying to load a combo box with unbound data from a datareader.

 

[chmohan]

HTH

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Dot_Net/VB_DOT_NET/Q_21278477.html

 

[imterpsfan3]

That link is dealing with text boxes. What I'm trying to do is BIND a combo box to a hash table or a dictionary class.

 

[chmohan]

Did you go down the page? to the accepted answer,he is using a combo box

 

[imterpsfan3]

Thanks,
I just did something simple like this. There are much more sophisticated ways of doing this but this seems to require less memory and is faster using a dictionaryentry. For loading database data, I'll just loop through the data reader instead of this for loop.

private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
		{
			
						cbo.BeginUpdate();
			for(int i = 0;i <5000;i++)
			{
				
				cbo.Items.Add(new DictionaryEntry(i.ToString(),i.ToString()));
			}
			
			cbo.EndUpdate();
			
			
			cbo.DisplayMember = "Value";
			cbo.ValueMember = "Key";
			
			
			
		}