Kevin,
Assuming that your DataSource is a Table, you can put a filter on it's DefaultView to filter out the items that you don't want to show.
~~Bonnie
>Let's say I have a combo box that's populated with five items...but at various times I might want to programatically disable certain items [e.g. disable the 4th and 5th]
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>In VFP, I can populate the combo box and put a '\' in front of every individual item that I want to disable. It doesn't seem that .NET recognizes this.
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>Is there any way this can be done?
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>Thanks,
>Kevin