Data Source and Combo Box

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I would like to bind a combo box to my DSNs in windows. Any idea how
i might accomplish this? I wouldl like to have the drop down display
the available sources. I am searching but cannot find anything online
or in my C# books and am new to C#.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

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Is this at design time, or at run time?

 

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Soulless,

Is this at design time, or at run time?

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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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I would like to bind a combo box to my DSNs in windows. Any idea how
i might accomplish this? I wouldl like to have the drop down display
the available sources. I am searching but cannot find anything online
or in my C# books and am new to C#.

Thanks in advance!- Hide quoted text -

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Hi, I may be going about this the wrong way...

I'm wanting to have a combo box display available DSN sources. This
way I could import from excel or sql server. I thought of some how
binding that cbo to the dsn in ODBC at design time, but i do not know
if that is really the best way.

I am thinking now, maybe i need a dataset and just have the sources in
XML for the dataset and then populate the cbo from that.

I think I need to analyze the needs a little more first.

Thanks!

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

For a moment, I thought that you were talking about data sources that
are available to the design surface, not ODBC data sources.

For the DSN names, I believe you will have to call the SQLDataSources
function through the P/Invoke layer. It will require a number of calls to
other functions in the ODBC APIs to set the environment up as well.


--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- (e-mail address removed)

Soulless,

Is this at design time, or at run time?

--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- (e-mail address removed)

I would like to bind a combo box to my DSNs in windows. Any idea how
i might accomplish this? I wouldl like to have the drop down display
the available sources. I am searching but cannot find anything online
or in my C# books and am new to C#.

Thanks in advance!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Hi, I may be going about this the wrong way...

I'm wanting to have a combo box display available DSN sources. This
way I could import from excel or sql server. I thought of some how
binding that cbo to the dsn in ODBC at design time, but i do not know
if that is really the best way.

I am thinking now, maybe i need a dataset and just have the sources in
XML for the dataset and then populate the cbo from that.

I think I need to analyze the needs a little more first.

Thanks!