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;