Setting up your ComboBoxes, Fluent Style

Impossibility is not an option! - Fluent ComboBox configuration

“While refactoring an application today, I had to configure a couple of ComboBoxes programmaticaly.
To simplify this, I cam up with the following piece of code.

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It implements a fluent interface to setup the ComboBox with a little less noisy code:

 ComboboxBinder.Bind(cboType)
                .ViewForDataSource(_typeTable, "", "Name")
                .DisplayMember("Name")
                .ValueMember("TypeID")
                .SelectedIndex(1);

        ComboboxBinder.Bind(cboState)
                .ViewForDataSource(_stateTable)
                .DisplayMember("Description")
                .ValueMember("StateID")
                .SelectedIndex(1);

Hopefully its useful for someone. Of course you would probably have it change it to fit your needs.”

While I’m still wrapping my head around “Fluent,” I thought this sample was cool. It has immediate benefit and helps me in any area that I always seem to be reinventing, my silly combobox setup coding.