84) Colors ComboBox Processing
Visual Basic .NET - How To Video Tutorials by Joe Bolen.
Learn about presenting the colors in a ComboBox.
The ComboBox is a combination of the TextBox and the ListBox controls. Often it is preloaded with values from a data source for selecting data contained within the ComboBox or the ComboBox uses its SelectedValue as a key to retrieve data from a database table. However, in this video will see how to load the ComboBox’s items with the known colors on your computer. Also, you will see how to draw within the ComboBox’s drop down items a small rectangle of the color and the color's name. Thus, you will learn a little about colors, enumerations, LINQ and graphics in the simple demonstration program.