MS Access and Combo Box

[Cagez]

I have a MS Access db with table 'users' and I want to populate the combo box with the user names from the db (field 'user') from the table.

I have a connection, a data adapter and a data set, but whenever I set DataSource and DisplayMember of my combo box, I try it out and nothing appears.

Any idea what the problem can be - or point me in the direction of a tutorial, I've done this purely through VB.net docs and an modified example from these forums.

Thank you!

[Wallabie]

Just a quick note....it would help if you posted the code you've got and someone could check where you've gone wrong.

[Cagez]

I was thinking about that, but I didn't do it through code, I did it through the designer (Toolbox->Data->OleDbConnection/OleDbAdapter/DataSet)... Should I do it the other way?

[Iouri]

Create a dataset from your table and then populate the combo from the required field

Dim cnNorthwind As New SqlConnection("Data Source=localhost;Integrated
Security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=northwind")
Dim cmCustomers As New SqlCommand("uspS_Company", cnNorthwind)
Dim daCustomers As New SqlDataAdapter(cmCustomers)
Dim dsCustomers As New DataSet()
Dim drCustomers As DataRow

'fill DataSet
daCustomers.Fill(dsCustomers, "Customers")

'adding items with DataRow from DataSet
For Each drCustomers In dsCustomers.Tables("Customers").Rows
  cbo.Items.Add(drCustomers("CompanyName"))
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