Hi;
I have an application that is using vb.net on a windows ce device. I am
binding a large amount of records (10k+) to a combobox. It takes forever to
load. Currently I am binding the data at startup of the application. What I
would like to do is have the application start and let the user be doing
other things in the program while this one combobox loads. The combobox
itself isn't used often, so I could get by without loading it at startup.

Any ideas? Thanks in advace for the help

Dale

My advice? Dont use a combo box for over 100 records (even that is pushing
it). A combo box is a poor tool for displaying large numbers of items.
With that many it becomes virtually unusable. If the user need to select
between 10,000 items then query the database when the user needs the data,
and let the user search for a record by specifying a search string.
Especially for soemthign that isnt used often.


"TnCoder" <TnCoder (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

Jim;

Thanks for the advice. I convinced the business owner to use your
suggestion. The end users now type in the first three characters and I run a
query to populate the combobox with a reasonable number of items.

Thanks again

Dale


"Jim Underwood" wrote: