A List Control/Component by Binarymission Technologies Ltd

The standard ComboBox control available to developers, in the Microsoft .NET framework, suffers from some serious limitations when used in modern GUI applications, including a complete lack of direct support for using images, formatting display, ComboBox text AutoCompletion and Multi-Column dropdown list!

To offer developers an extended and feature rich ComboBox control, Binarymission now proudly presents its flagship .NET control - BinaryComboBox .NET©.

BinaryComboBox .NET is an extended replacement for the standard .NET ComboBox control, providing a wealth of impressive features which makes it easier for you to develop and deliver more functionality in less time.

Feature list:
In addition to the standard .NET framework’s ComboBox functionality, BinaryComboBox .NET offers the following rich features:

• Multi-Column drop-down list: BinaryComboBox .NET supports a multi-column drop down list of data! All you need to do is set a simple property, and the control will instantly support a multi-column drop-down list of items.


• New! Multi-column drop-list feature now supports both ComboBox DropDown style as well as DropDownList style !


• This new feature allows you the choice of either selecting items directly from the multi-column drop-list or to type in directly to the combobox.


• This comes handy when your users know what they are typing in and don't have to neccessarily use the multi-column drop-list (although they still can).


• New! The Multi-column drop-down window size is now configurable! The control now exposes a new property to let you set the size of the multi-column drop-down window.


• New! The Multi-column drop-down list Column header text is now configurable! The control now exposes a new property to let you specify your choice of custom strings to display as the multi-column header text (instead of just displaying the attached DataTable column names as multi-column header text!)


• New! The Multi-column drop-down list column width is now configurable! The control now supports a new property to let you define a custom width for each of the displayed column in the multicolumn dropdown list.


• New! The Multi-column dropdown style now supports AutoCompletion of text!


• ComboBox text AutoCompletion: Using the control, now you can automatically select the best match of an item from the list, as you type in a text, saving time selecting items from a possible long drop-down list.


• Also, the control exposes a special property, to let the user decide whether the AutoCompletion feature will be case-sensitive or not.


• New! A performance efficient routine has been added to support handling faster Auto-Completion, especially to cope-up with high-speed data entry users.


• New! AutoCompletion feature is now available on Data-bound mode as well! The control now supports auto-completion of text in data-bound mode as well - where it will be able to retrieve any closely matching data items from the attached datasource, while you type-in text into BinaryComboBox control.


• Data binding: BinaryComboBox .NET supports both Data-bound and unbound modes.


• Image Support: Now you can show images next to the items on the drop down list, in both normal and selected states of the control.


• You are now relieved from the tedious pain of overriding various custom draw routines of ComboBox control.


• "Read-only" feature support: BinaryComboBox .NET supports a new property called ComboBoxIsReadOnly , which when set to true, can set the Edit control portion of the ComboBox control to read-only mode!


• This new feature will let your users to perform clipboard operations on the ComboBox text, while at the same time, blocking them from editing the combobox text (all this while still being in the ComboBox DropDown style!)


• Ability to fully support "Control painting" with custom colors (with Alpha-blending support): Using the control's simple properties, you can now set custom colors of your choice, for drawing the ComboBox as well as its drop-down list and other aspects like, item hovering background color, etc., along with full support for "Alpha blending" of colors.