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Title / Updated	Author	Score
Control Subclassing Updated: 7 May 2003   This article explains how to subclass controls so that they act and look the way you desire. It uses a listbox as an example. VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Eric Sanchez	4.75
Setting the width of the dropdown list Updated: 17 May 2000   A simple tutorial explaining how to set the width of a combo dropdown list so that all items are fully visible VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Chris Maunder	4.73
Using the CComboBox control Updated: 23 Mar 2001   An entry level tutorial on using the CComboBox control VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Wolfram Steinke	4.56
Using the CCheckListBox and getting check state notification Updated: 4 May 2004   Using the CCheckListBox and getting check state notification VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Beginner	intensely_radioactive	4.25
Using the CListBox control Updated: 23 Mar 2001   An entry level tutorial on using the CListBox control. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Wolfram Steinke	4.06
A Class to Save and Load Listbox Data Updated: 2 Jan 2002   CListBoxSafe is a class that can save data from a listbox to file and load data from a file into a listbox. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Kuniva	3.50
Combo and List boxes			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
A Separator Combo/List Box Updated: 28 May 2007   The Custom Combo Box and List Box Control with Separators C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Zuoliu Ding	4.71
Drill-down Combo Control Updated: 22 Dec 2005   A flexible drill-down combo control supporting hierarchical, cascading selections. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	omcken	4.46
Add Item to Binded Combo Box Updated: 7 Oct 2006   This article shows how a new item can be added to a data binded combo box .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, QA, Intermediate	Ali Raza Shaikh	4.43
Image ComboBox Control Updated: 8 Jul 2005   This is an extended, owner drawn ComboBox which has an added support to display images in the combobox dropdown as well as the edit (text) box. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, GDI+, Dev, Intermediate	sindhumn	4.36
Managed Font Combobox Updated: 4 Mar 2005   A managed combobox that displays a sample of each font in the system. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, GDI+, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Martin Cook	4.35
CheckBox ComboBox Extending the ComboBox Class and Its Items Updated: 29 Apr 2008   An article on a CheckBox ComboBox control which extends the ComboBox.Items. C# 2.0, .NET 3.5, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Martin Lottering	4.31
How to set values into ComboBox Items Updated: 26 Jun 2002   How to use ValueMember with ADO.NET. .NET 1.0, Win2K, VS.NET2002, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Tomohiro	4.02
ComboBox with read only behavior Updated: 25 Apr 2005   An article about developing a ComboBox with the same read only functionality as the TextBox. .NET 1.1, WinXP, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Claudio Grazioli	4.00
A combobox that looks decent when it is disabled Updated: 6 Aug 2006   This article describes a method to ownerdraw a combo box so that the text is readable when the combobox is disabled. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	AlexKilpatrick	3.90
An extended ListBox control Updated: 17 Dec 2002   A control that offers extensible entry specification and full keyboard support. .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	ClearlyDotNet	3.73
A ComboBox in a DataGrid Updated: 25 Dec 2002   Descendant from DataGridColumnStyle. Win2K, WinXP, C#, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Jan Wiggers	3.54
How Do I Put Display and Value in Combobox/Listbox Separately? Updated: 15 Jun 2007   This article demonstrates how to use object as items in combobox and listbox and manipulate them. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, Windows, Dev, Beginner	Manish Ranjan Kumar	3.45
HtmlDropDownList Updated: 17 Jul 2005   The HtmlDropDownList control is a Windows Forms control extending the ComboBox, it uses owner drawing to display a limited set of HTML and raises an event when an anchor link is clicked. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Bruce Robertson	3.33
ColorComboBox Updated: 11 Aug 2004   Selecting colors with a combo box. VC7, VC7.1, .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, C#, GDI+, Dev, Intermediate	pseudonym67	3.19
Binding the Enum to the Dropdown Listbox and Sorting it on Values. - Unedited Updated: 12 May 2008   An article on Binding Enum to DropdownListbox with the SortedList that sort entries by value instead of by key. .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, VB 7.x, VB 8.0, VB 9.0, VB 6, .NET 3.5, VB, .NET, WebForms, Intermediate	Chirag Maisuriya	3.00
An Autobiography of a Windows Forms custom control in its own words [ComboView] – Part I. Updated: 27 Dec 2003   Who am I? What am I doing here at CodeProject? Well, I'll answer myself all these questions and others. .NET 1.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2002, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Rajesh Pillai	2.93
Moving listbox items - Unedited Updated: 26 Mar 2008   Move lisbox items and change indices C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#	privately voided()	2.83
A Data Bound Combo Box Updated: 5 Dec 2004   This article provides a combo box that is easy to use with data sources. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, Dev, ADO.NET, WinForms, Intermediate	Stanciu Vlad	2.45
Databinding CheckListBoxControl with DataView Updated: 6 Mar 2005   Databinding CheckListBoxControl with DataView. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Syed Irtaza Ali	2.33
ReadOnly ComboBox - Unedited Updated: 23 Oct 2008   An extended ComboBox that adds a ReadOnly property to it .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, Mono, DotGNU, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, C#, .NET, Dev	Fabio Franco	2.33
Customized ListBox Control, how to extend the basic functionality. Part 1 - Collection Events - Unedited Updated: 11 Jul 2008   Create a listbox control that provides events for when adding or removing items .NET 2.0, VS2005, VB 7.x, VB 8.0, VB 9.0, VB 6, VB, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Calle Mellergardh	2.00
ReadOnly Combobox Updated: 7 May 2007   Creating simple, attractive, read-only comboboxes C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	topcatalpha	1.33
Cascading Dropdonlist in ASP.NET - Unedited Updated: 13 Feb 2008   Cascading dropdown list in asp.net using MYSQL database WinXP, Vista, ASP, ASP.NET, VBScript, Javascript, CSS, Windows, SQL Server, HTML, Ajax, Design, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced	Avinash Desai	1.12
ItemData in .NET - Unedited Updated: 10 Dec 2007   Combo box and List Box Item Data in .NET NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, TabletPC, Embedded, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#, Windows, Win32, Win64, Intermediate	S.Raja	1.00
Combo & List Boxes - ComboBox Controls			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
AdvComboBox - Version 2.1 Updated: 5 Sep 2002   A Combobox in which the user can resize the drop window. Can be standard style or flat style. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Mathias Tunared	4.81
AutoComplete without IAutoComplete Updated: 30 Apr 2003   An AutoCompletion control that doesn't use IAutoComplete but still retains the same look and feel. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Andreas Kapust	4.80
Implementing an autocompleting Combobox Updated: 18 Oct 2000   A combobox that autocompletes as you type VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Chris Maunder	4.77
CheckComboBox Control Updated: 24 Nov 1999   A combo box with check boxes. VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Magnus Egelberg, Lundalogik	4.77
Custom ComboBox Updated: 4 May 2006   A combo box control with a custom popup control. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Bahrudin Hrnjica	4.73
How to create a custom ComboBox from scratch Updated: 13 Nov 2008   An article on creating a custom ComboBox control completely from scratch. .NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Vista, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, C#, Windows, .NET, GDI+, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	bbbnova	4.71
History ComboBox Updated: 20 Apr 2007   CComboBox with support for item history. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Paul S. Vickery	4.68
Searchable MultiColumn ComboBox with Linked TextBox Updated: 31 Jan 2008   A multi-column combox that can link to a dataset or an array of objects. Supports the hiding of columns and the reordering of visible ones. The combobox can display a field (like a code) while the linked text box can show the corresponding description. Supports auto-completion and RightToLeft langua .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Darryl Caillouet	4.59
Priority sorted task list control Updated: 10 Oct 2002   Color coded priority task list control for managing TODO lists VC6, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	PCSpectra	4.58
A Custom Group Combo Box Updated: 12 Jun 2001   A combobox-like control that allows groupings within the elements in the dropdown list. VC6, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Brett R. Mitchell	4.53
Font Combo Updated: 7 Jul 2003   An MFC-based Font selection and preview combo VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Chris Losinger, Dave Schumann	4.45
XTipComboBox - Display tooltips for combobox Updated: 1 Jul 2003   XTipComboBox implements a combobox with tooltips for the data items (both in the list box and in the edit box) VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.39
FontComboBox ActiveX control Updated: 7 Aug 2002   Another FontComboBox class. This one uses the ATL technology VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, ATL, Dev, Intermediate	Jean-Michel LE FOL	4.35
A Windows.Forms.ComboBox with Item ToolTips for 32 bit Windows XP (SP2) Updated: 6 Jun 2007   A simple overview of how to create a hybrid Drop-Down ComboBox where a tooltip is shown over an item if it is too long to display within the ListBox rectangle. .NET 2.0, WinXP, VS2005, VB 8.0, .NET, GDI+, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Richard Ashman	4.33
Color Picker by Owner Drawn List Box and Combo Box Updated: 30 Jul 2002   Demonstrates how to implement a WIN32 color picker by owner drawn list box or combo box VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Li Zhaoming	4.33
Super Combo Box - combo-box with columns, colors and more Updated: 12 Apr 2004   A CComboBox derived class that contains colors, columns, bold fonts, and images. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	ronhash	4.24
A separator combo-box Updated: 13 Jun 2004   A CComboBox derived combo-box class VC7, VC7.1, VS.NET2002, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Zuoliu Ding	4.23
A Multi Column ComboBox Updated: 30 Nov 1999   A multicolumn, customizable, editable combobox VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Xiao Wu Guang	4.23
Combo Box Initialization Updated: 16 May 2000   Learn how to programmatically initialize a combo box. VC6, NT4, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Joseph M. Newcomer	4.23
Combo box with both read-only items and editable items Updated: 19 Feb 2004   A combo box that consists of both read-only items as well as editable items that depending on selection, locks and unlocks the edit field of the combo box. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Patric_J	4.18
Color Picker Combo Box Updated: 18 Oct 2000   A combobox derived class that provides a simple color picker VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	James R. Twine	4.16
Case-sensitive ComboBox Updated: 20 Apr 2007   CComboBox (and CListBox) with case-sensitive searching VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Paul S. Vickery	4.02
Customizable ComboBox Drop-Down Updated: 15 Jul 2008   A combobox control with a customizable drop-down C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C#, Windows, .NET, GDI+, Dev, Intermediate	lhayes00	4.00
Store and show Tree struct in a Combobox Updated: 31 Jul 2002   Store and show Tree struct in Combobox VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Simon.W	3.98
Read Only ComboBox Updated: 3 Oct 2000   Show a disabled dropdown style combobox like a read only edit box. VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Tim McColl	3.94
ColorComboBox Updated: 3 Jul 2008   A ColorComboBox color picker using ToolStripDropDown. C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#, Windows, .NET, Dev, WinForms, Beginner	Ali Rafiee	3.93
A Read-Only Combo with Selectable Text Updated: 30 Nov 2005   A combo box which behaves as a fully disabled combo box except that it allows you to select the text. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	David Pritchard	3.89
Creating an input for a console using a combo box Updated: 25 Jan 2005   A simple way to use a combo box for an input field for a console. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Kevin Bond	3.89
CCheckComboBox II Updated: 4 Jul 2004   A ComboBox that has a checkbox by each of its items. VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	PJ Arends	3.88
A ComboBox with a CheckedListBox as a Dropdown Updated: 22 Nov 2008   A ComboBox with a CheckedListBox as a dropdown C# 2.0, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Stelios Alexandrakis	3.80
Most Recently Used List in a Combobox Updated: 29 Nov 1999   A combobox that encapsulates the functionality of CRecentFileList NT4, C++, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Michael Dunn	3.64
Read Only ComboBox Provider Updated: 22 May 2008   How to create a read only combobox user IExtenderProvider. .NET 2.0, VB 8.0, VB, .NET, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	RanceDowner1234	3.60
CComboBox with disabled items Updated: 14 Apr 2000   combobox with disabled items VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Petr Novotny	3.59
ComboBoxDataBind Updated: 21 Sep 2003   A resizable combobox which can bind data through an interface VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, C++/CLI, .NET, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Janardhan Babu Chinta	3.57
Multicolumn Autocompleting Combobox Updated: 13 Jan 2004   A Combobox that will open up when a unique match is found and can contain more than one column VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Ed Mitchell	3.53
ComboBox bold - Combo box with bold text items and optional icon. Updated: 5 Aug 2003   Combo Box that allows you to set some of the items to be bold VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Alex Hazanov	3.48
Office Style Flat ComboBox Updated: 15 Dec 1999   A drop-in replacement combobox that gives your apps the flat Office-style look VC6, NT4, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Kirk Stowell	3.47
IconComboBox - Selecting Icons Updated: 3 Mar 2000   2 Freeware MFC icon selection combo box classes VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	PJ Naughter	3.43
CMultiCombo - A checkbox-bitmapped combobox Updated: 27 Jan 2002   Present a combo-box class that allows multiple checkbox bitmaps to be placed next to each item. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Mauricio Ritter	3.43
SQL Server Combo Control Updated: 4 Aug 2008   Lists all instances of SQL Server found on a local network. .NET 2.0, WinXP, SQL 2005, VB 9.0, VS2008, VB, Windows, .NET, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Sorcerer1324	3.14
A Combobox with bitmaps Updated: 24 Nov 1999   A combo box that can be used to display bitmaps VC6, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Anneke Sicherer-Roetman	3.10
VBLikeCombo - A Visual Basic Style Combo Box Updated: 5 Apr 2000   Creates a combo box similar to those in Visual Basic. VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	John C	2.97
ItemDataCombo Updated: 28 Jun 2000   An extremely simple but useful CComboBox entension VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Chris Losinger	2.90
Skin the ComboBox in 3 simple function calls Updated: 24 Mar 2004   Set the skin for combobox drop down list of combo box. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Ashok Jaiswal	2.72
A ComboBox using XML as dictionary Updated: 24 Oct 2002   Create a new combobox which can fill itself automatically using a dictionary in XML VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Johnson Zhou	2.64
A Customized User Control Combo (smartCombo) that can handle generic connection - Unedited Updated: 24 Nov 2008   A Customized User Control Combo (smartCombo) .NET 2.0, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#, .NET, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	arif_uap	2.13
Visual Studio Style Color Picker Combo - Unedited Updated: 1 Jan 2008   Advanced Color picker combo box, very efficient for selecting named colors and custom colors .NET 2.0, Mono, DotGNU, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, C#, .NET, Win32, GDI, WinForms, Design, Intermediate	sibinsunny	1.18
Stylish font combo box - Unedited Updated: 1 Jan 2008   Combo box helps you to select fonts very easily .NET 2.0, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, C#, .NET, WinForms, Intermediate	sibinsunny	1.14
Combo & List Boxes - General			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
A data-bound multi-column combobox Updated: 27 Jul 2007   An ownerdrawn multi-column combobox class with support for data-binding .NET 2.0, WinXP, Vista, VS2005, C# 2.0, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Nishant Sivakumar	4.84
Editable ListBox Tutorial Updated: 24 May 2006   Step-by-step development of an editable ListBox. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Franc Morales	4.80
A Logging Listbox Control Updated: 16 May 2000   Learn how to use printf-like functionality to debug your GUI applications. VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Joseph M. Newcomer	4.76
Dynamically Highlight Elements in a List Control Updated: 20 Aug 2001   Use the custom draw features of a List Control to dynamically find and hightlight items. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Coleman Brumley	4.72
SuperGrid - Yet Another listview control Updated: 8 Dec 1999   A combination list control and tree control with checkbox capability VC6, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Allan Nielsen	4.64
Local Input With No Effort Updated: 10 Mar 2006   A sort of "add-on" to any application, which does not change at all the behaviour of the application but solves the "local edit" problem in a unitary way. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Mircea Puiu	4.62
Fast Drive ComboBox - Unedited Updated: 22 May 2007   Fast ComboBox that correctly displays all logical drives with appropriate icon, volume name and drive letter .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, VS.NET2003, VS2005, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Beginner	Michael B. Hansen	4.60
Using text callbacks in ListView Controls Updated: 26 Nov 1999   Shows how to use text callbacks in list controls VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Chris Maunder	4.58
Dynamically re-creating a combo box Updated: 2 Aug 2002   Function to recreate a combo box at run-time to allow new styles, preserving its data VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Paul S. Vickery	4.56
Pickers Library: For Creating Pickers in .NET Updated: 16 Oct 2007   A library for creating pickers: controls that display rich drop-down UIs .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, WinForms, Beginner	@MSI	4.55
Thumbnails Viewer using ListCtrl Updated: 27 Jan 2006   Show thumbnails of images, include JPG, TIFF, BMP, etc. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	moah	4.55
Making Standard ComboBox appear flat Updated: 18 May 2005   A simple and easy class that draws the standard ComboBox as flat control. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, C#, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Fadrian Sudaman	4.54
Autosize ListCtrl Header Updated: 19 Apr 2007   Autosize the last column of a list control's header. But there is a catch... C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Ali Rafiee	4.46
Dynamically re-creating a list box Updated: 2 Aug 2002   Function to recreate a listbox at run-time to allow new styles, preserving its data, and selections VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Paul S. Vickery	4.45
Where's the ImageCombo control? Updated: 18 Jan 2004   ImageCombo control for .NET. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediat