You can actually bind the DataSource of a list control directly to the DataReader. However, I think a cleaner method is to populate an ArrayList or SortedList object and bind the DataSource to it.

>Is it possible to populate a list object (ListBox or ComboBox) from a DataReader?
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>When using the ComboBox.Items.Add() method, (which is what I intended on using with the data retreived via a DataReader), it appears that you can only add a single column of values. Specifying a column to associate with the DisplayMember and ValueMember properties seems to require that I specify a DataTable or DataView as the DataSource.
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>I suppose I could transfer the values from the DataReader to a manually-constructed DataSet, but that seems like going 'round the block to get next door <bg>.
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>Thanks.