WPF ComboBox Data Binding

Traditional way of binding data into ComboBox in C# .net 2.0 is by assigning data into property of ComboBox called “DataSource” and we set DataKey and DataValue and it is done.

In WPF, the naming of these properties has changed to very weird name and the sample code below will do the same job:

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Jeann

Awesome! I agree with Kurt. Why change the basics!?

Another comment, is why can't 'datatables' be used as data sources? I understand that the object has to be enumerable - but tables could always be used in comboboxes or any other data aware control... Now, its no longer possible.

But thanks, this simple example helped me immediately!
Kurt

Thank you. I'm not sure why Microsoft likes to torture developers and change basic practice every other year, always making simple things more complicated, but your example was just what I needed.

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