Click here to Skip to main content
15,881,172 members

Populating combobox from child form with dictionary

JacoBosch asked:

Open original thread
Good day

I have created a two forms in my Windows application. On my Main form is a combobox and on my second(child) form is a button.

I want to populate the combobox with a dictionary when the button is clicked on the child form.

I have written the dictionary that is calling a short procedure. The dictionary is working and is populating from the main form.

Here is the dictionary code on the Main Form

public void dctRplStatus()
       {
                Dictionary<string, int> objdic = new Dictionary<string, int>();
                objdic = clsIngadmin.SelectdicReplacementStatus();
                cmbRplStatus.DisplayMember = "Key";
                cmbRplStatus.ValueMember = "Value";
                cmbRplStatus.DataSource = new BindingSource(objdic, null);
                objdic = null;



Code on child form on the button click event

frmMain formmain = new frmMain()

formmain.cmbRplStatus = dctRplStatus;


I get an error connot convert type 'void' to 'System.Windows.Forms.Combobox'

I change my dctRplStatus() method to a string and tried to return the objdic but it did not work.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanx
Tags: C# (C# 4.0), Windows Forms, Combobox, Dictionary

Plain Text
ASM
ASP
ASP.NET
BASIC
BAT
C#
C++
COBOL
CoffeeScript
CSS
Dart
dbase
F#
FORTRAN
HTML
Java
Javascript
Kotlin
Lua
MIDL
MSIL
ObjectiveC
Pascal
PERL
PHP
PowerShell
Python
Razor
Ruby
Scala
Shell
SLN
SQL
Swift
T4
Terminal
TypeScript
VB
VBScript
XML
YAML

Preview



When answering a question please:
  1. Read the question carefully.
  2. Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
  3. If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
  4. Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.
Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.
Please note that all posts will be submitted under the http://www.codeproject.com/info/cpol10.aspx.



CodeProject, 20 Bay Street, 11th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J 2N8 +1 (416) 849-8900