WinForms ComboBox | Multiselect ComboBox

Advanced WinForms ComboBox Control

Multiple items selection made easy with intuitive check box selection.

Searching and filtering can be performed by placing an intuitive UI at the top of the drop-down.

Its rich feature set includes autocompletion, check box selection, sorting, watermark text, and appearance customization.

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Overview

The WinForms ComboBox (multiselect combobox) control allows users to type a value or choose an item or multiple items using multiselect option . Any UI control can be loaded as the header of the dropdown. Users can perform customized actions like search and filter in the dropdown. It’s rich feature set includes autocomplete, sorting, watermark text, appearance customization, and more.

Data binding

The WinForms ComboBox has data binding support to work out-of-the-box with all the popular data sources like IEnumerable (IList, IBindingList, ObservableCollection, and more) and DataTable. It also supports sorting and filtering. Data can be shown based on the display member and value member.

winforms combobox data binding illustration

Selection

The WinForms ComboBox provides support to select an item or multiple items from the dropdown.
Users can easily select multiple items by using the intuitive checkbox in the dropdown.
Support for multiple selection and confirmation button in the dropdown. Supports customization of the selected item’s appearance.

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Autocomplete (filter by typing)

winformscombobox showing editing with suggestions in drop down

Suggestion

Displays the list of items in the dropdown based on the typed text in edit control.
Users can perform case-sensitive autocompletion .
Built-in support to suggest items that starts with text or contains.

winforms combobox showing editing with appended text

Append

Completes the user typed word from the suggestion text. This helps users to search for the correct items easily.
Select an item from the dropdown list based on the appended word in edit control.

winforms combobox showing editing with suggestion and appended text

Suggest and append

Combined operation of suggestion and append.
Users can perform case-sensitive autocompletion .
Completes a word that the user types from the suggestion text and filter the suggestions. Users can choose an item from the filtered list.

Sort

Sort the items in the dropdown either in the ascending or descending order.
Users can sort items by writing their own custom logic.

winforms combobox shows sorted data in descening order

Filtering

The WinForms ComboBox allows users to filter data. Users can filter items with their own custom logic.

winforms combobox shows filtered data

Watermark

Watermark provide additional hints to the users about the data to be selected from the listed values.

winforms combobox shows watermark text

Appearance style

winforms combobox styling

Styling

Customize the appearance of the edit control and dropdown list.

Background color
Text color
Font and more.

winforms combobox conditional tyling

Conditional styling

Customize the appearance of the dropdown list items based on the data.

Conditional styling documentation

winforms combobox shows image in dropdown

Users can load an image to each list item in the dropdown. Also, supports image alignment with text.

winforms combobox shows custom drawing in dropdown

Custom drawing

Supports making a custom drawing for every list item.

Built-in themes

The WinForms ComboBox control provides Office 2016 built-in theme support to adapt the control to the rest of the business application. The following Office 2016 themes are supported.

Colorful
Black
Dark gray
White

Office 2016 black theme in winforms combobox

Item height

Users can adjust (auto fit) the item height in the dropdown based on the content of the item to enhance readability. It is also possible to set the item height conditionally.