How to lock combobox so that the text and items cannot be modified/delete/erased?

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Is it possible lock the combobox so that the text can not be deleted/erased or modified. And make only choose the items? Thank you in advance. Hope is it possible.

Possible duplicate of [How can I make a ComboBox non-editable in .NET?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/85702/how-can-i-make-a-combobox-non-editable-in-net) — Felipe, Jun 01 '17 at 21:24

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 10 '14 at 08:43

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Set the "DropDownStyle" property of the combobox to DropDownList. This will allow only items in the list to be selected and will not allow any user input:

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answered Sep 10 '14 at 08:43

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

Option 1

Simply set the ComboBox.Enabled to False - that way they can't change the values!

Option 2

Otherwise, use the dropDownStyle:

make DropDownStyle property to DropDownList instead of DropDown

For more information

Read this article (yes, it's written in c#, but the properties are the same!)

The Different Styles

the above image displays this quite well.

EDIT

There is also a question previously asked here that asked a similar question.

spongebob · Answer 3 · 2014-09-10T08:52:03.003

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You can set ComboBox.DropDownStyle to ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList.

edited Sep 10 '14 at 08:52

answered Sep 10 '14 at 08:46

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How to lock combobox so that the text and items cannot be modified/delete/erased?

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