Hi all!

Question... Can an unbound control in VB2005 receive ID values from a class?

For example...

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'this would populate the names of a class, but not pass in any ID numbers from the database
Dim RecordCol As RecordCollection = [ClassName].GetAllRecords
Dim i As Integer

For i = 0 To (RecordCol.Count - 1)
    Combobox1.Items.Add(RecordCol.Item(i).Name.ToStrin g)
Next i
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I realise I can use the datasource property, but I don't want to purely because I'm a mega "anti-databound" type developer. I also know that using the valuemember and selectedvalue properties may be of some use, but I can't figure out a way of doing it the way I am.

Using VB6 this was simply acheived by doing:

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    Combo1.Additem("Item1")
    Combo1.ItemData(Combo1.NewIndex) = RecordSet("FieldName")
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I've tried the beginners forum, but not had any answers (and it's a week old).

Hope someone can help...

Kind regards,

Craig

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Kind regards,

Craig

Here is a post that may help:

http://www.mgbrown.com/PermaLink37.aspx




Best Regards,
Earl Francis

Thanks ef1196. Has helped!

I may just be in silly mode today or something, but I can't figure out (from the solution from the website provided) how to tell a (for example) combo box to go to a certain record by using this new class.

Basically once you read a record from the database that includes an id number, how do you make the combo box (that has been populated using this method) then go to the correct item within its list?

I've tried as much as I can think of... but I think I'm in silly mode today...

Cheers!

Kind regards,

Craig

From my experience, if you have a load of controls, including your combo, connected to a datasource everything happens without any code. As your combo is disconnected it can't update anything else. Your other controls will have to be updated manually using a data row.

Personally I never use connected controls, I like to know my code is doing the job!