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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Sams
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Selecting Values from a List with the ComboBox Control

The WPF ComboBox also works the same as in other technologies. The following XAML snippet shows how you implement a sample ComboBox showing a list of hypothetical customers:

<ComboBox Name="CustomerNamesCombo"          Width="200" Height="30"          SelectionChanged="CustomerNamesCombo_SelectionChanged">    <ComboBox.Items>        <ComboBoxItem Content="Alessandro"/>        <ComboBoxItem Content="Brook"/>    </ComboBox.Items></ComboBox>

Each item in the control is represented by a ComboBoxItem object whose Content property sets the item’s content that can be also something different from text. (For example, you might embed a video through a MediaElement control.) ...

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