How to Sort the Elements of the ComboBox in C#?
In Windows forms, ComboBox provides two different features in a single control, it means ComboBox works as both TextBox and ListBox. In ComboBox, only one item is displayed at a time and the rest of the items are present in the drop-down menu. You are allowed to sort the elements present in the ComboBox by using the Sorted Property.
If you want to sort the elements of the ComboBox, then set the value of this property to true, otherwise, false. The default value of this property is false. This sorting is case-insensitive and the elements are sort in ascending order. You can set this property using two different methods:
1. Design-Time: It is the easiest method to sort the elements present in the ComboBox control using the following steps:
2. Run-Time: It is a little bit trickier than the above method. In this method, you can sort the elements present in the ComboBox programmatically with the help of given syntax:
public bool Sorted { get; set; }
Here, the value of this property is of System.Boolean type. Following steps are used to sort the ComboBox elements:
- Step 1: Create a combobox using the ComboBox() constructor is provided by the ComboBox class.
// Creating ComboBox using ComboBox class
ComboBox mybox = new ComboBox();
- Step 2: After creating ComboBox, sort the elements of the ComboBox.
// Sort the elements of the ComboBox
mybox.Sorted = true;
- Step 3: And last add this combobox control to form using Add() method.
// Add this ComboBox to form
this.Controls.Add(mybox);
Example:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace WindowsFormsApp11 {
public partial class Form1 : Form {
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Load( object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Label l = new Label();
l.Location = new Point(222, 80);
l.Size = new Size(99, 18);
l.Text = "Select city name" ;
this .Controls.Add(l);
ComboBox mybox = new ComboBox();
mybox.Location = new Point(327, 77);
mybox.Size = new Size(216, 26);
mybox.Sorted = true ;
mybox.Name = "My_Cobo_Box" ;
mybox.Items.Add( "Mumbai" );
mybox.Items.Add( "Delhi" );
mybox.Items.Add( "Jaipur" );
mybox.Items.Add( "Kolkata" );
mybox.Items.Add( "Bengaluru" );
this .Controls.Add(mybox);
}
}
}
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Output:
Before sorting:
After sorting:
Last Updated :
27 Jun, 2019
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