How can a combo box be used having multiple display fields when Dataset is used as its data source?

Shehryar Tariq

You can't as far as I am aware. You can add a calculated column to a datatable which could then be used perhaps?

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Sam is correct. An ASP.NET DropDownList (there is not native combo box) is emitted and rendered as a standard HTML <select> element. This only allow a single string for it's value and display text. There are numerous 3rd party controls that provide combo box-like behavior for web apps however. You can also use the "poor-mans" approach and set your DDL to use a fixed width font and space delimit mutiple values so they appear tabular.

-Peter