Hashtable & Combo Box

[netenergy]

Hi,

I've created a hashtable which contains a list of countries with the key being the ISO country code and the value being the country name.

In ASP.NET I've attached it to a drop down list as so:

ddlCountries.DataSource = myHashtable
ddlCountries.DataTextField = "Value"
ddlCountries.DataValueField = "Key"

This works absolutely fine.

Now when I try to do a similar thing in a Windows Form using a combo box it throws an exception:

"System Exception: Complex DataBinding accepts as a data source either an IList or an IListSource"

I guess that its down to the type of collection, but is there anyway of binding a hashtable to a combo box?

Or, is there any easy way to convert the hashtable to something the combo box WILL accept?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[netenergy]

Great when you figure it out

Dim enurtrCountries As IDictionaryEnumerator = myHashtable.GetEnumerator
Dim drCountry As DataRow
Dim dtCountries As New DataTable

dtCountries.Columns.Add("Key")
dtCountries.Columns.Add("Value")

Do While enurtrCountries.MoveNext
drCountry = dtCountries.NewRow
drCountry("Key") = enurtrCountries.Key
drCountry("Value") = enurtrCountries.Value
dtCountries.Rows.Add(drCountry)
Loop

ddlCountry.DataSource = dtCountries
ddlCountry.DisplayMember = "Value"
ddlCountry.ValueMember = "Key"