Oracle like behavior in VB.net?

[elmousa68]

Is it possible to recreate the behavior of Oracle forms which is that when a user is in a field and upon the use of a key combination (such as CTRL-L) a "list of value" is presented to the user and the value chosen from that popup window is copied to the field / fields which contain the cursor? (I mean are there any facilities which simplify the above process in Visual Studio?)

[jmcilhinney]

The TextBox and ComboBox controls both have auto-complete functionality. Check out the documentation for each and concentrate on those properties whose names start with AutoComplete.

[elmousa68]

Thank you for the reply. Let me clarify: What I need is this behavior (the list of value) to be available in a control such datagridview where the user will choose a value from among values from a lookup table when the cursor is in a field in the datagrid. Is it possible make a field in the datagrid behave like a combobox?
(By the way: the object is to implement a master / detail form with functionality similar to Oracle forms).

[jmcilhinney]

That would be the DataGridViewComboBoxColumn, which is one of the standard options available to you when you add a column to a DataGridView. You may like to follow the CodeBank link in my signature and check out my thread on the subject for step by step instructions on making it work.