The WinComboEditor™ control provides functionality similar to the intrinsic combo box provided by the .NET framework, with additional features such as:
Appearance support — Full Appearance support including alpha-blending, gradients, image, etc.
Item Appearance Support — Each item in the control’s Items collection, as well as it’s edit portion, has its own Appearance object which means that each item can have a distinct font, foreground color, background color, image, etc.
Built-in Theming — Supports Standard, Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003, Visual Studio 2005, and Office 2007 themes.
Ink-enabled — The user can switch between freeform ink input and virtual keyboard input.
Null Text — Display a custom string when the control’s current value is null.
Most Recently Used (MRU) Feature — Display a list of the most recently entered information.
Automatic Word Completion — The edit portion is automatically updated to match an item in the items list as new characters are typed.
List Sorting — Multiple sorting options specify how list items will be sorted when displaying value list items in the drop down list.
Limit To List Validation — Specify whether the control will retain focus upon validation whenever the entered value is not a value in the control’s ValueList.