populating a combobox

[daboira]

I must to fill a combobox. My data source is an xml file. Wich is the better system to populate the combobox? I can do it with the traditional AddItem method, but I don't know if there is a better manner to do it. Thank you.

[hellswraith]

I am not very good with XML yet, but you could put that xml into a dataset, then databind the dataset to the combobox. You may be able to databind to the xml file, but I wouldn't know how.

[daboira]

it's a possibility. I will prove this implementation. Thank's

[Pirate]

for example you can do something like this :
Load all tables in an XML File to dataset , loop through it , add table names to combobox .

System.Data.DataSet ds=new DataSet();
			ds.ReadXml("data.xml");
			
			for(int i = 0; i < ds.Tables.Count - 1; i++)
			{
				this.comboBox1.Items.Add(ds.Tables[i].TableName); 

			}

[DevGrp]

You can use databinding

DataSet ds = new DataSet();
ds.ReadXml("books.xml");

comboBox1.DataSource = ds.Tables["book"];
comboBox1.DisplayMember = "title";
comboBox1.ValueMember = "id";

Here is the XML file

<bookcollection>
    <book>
        <title>Vb.NET for Dummies</title>
        <id>12236</id>
    </book>
    <book>
        <title>C# For Dummies</title>
        <id>32163</id>
    </book>
    <book>
        <title>.NET Framework</title>
        <id>52632</id>
    </book>
</bookcollection>