Don,

Your message title says ComboBox, your message itself says DropDownList. Which is it? Combos are for WinForms, DropDowns are WebForms and they each behave and are programmed very differently (I only know WinForms).

~~Bonnie




>Help with dropdown listbox control.
>
>Still new to .Net, and learning, how would I go about the following.
>I do a COM call and get an XML source back with two tables... the first table has a single record of entry chosen for edit. the second table has a list of choices available to them (each login has access to different tables and thus have their own valid choices).
>
>So..
>Table1.KeyIDForDropdown is the value I want updated, but the dropdown I want to populate choices from
>
>Table2.ChoicesText, Table2.ChoicesKeyID
>
>What approach should I consider for this operation.