This is another forum request. I’ve seen multiple requests from users who are looking to customize the drop down window for the ComboBox control. There is no builtin way to do this with the existing control. Instead you must create a custom solution.

PowerShell is an exciting product coming out of Microsoft. It’s a shell technology many old *nix junkies will find refreshing and very intuitive. It’s based on .Net and has a syntax feels like a mix between Pearl, C# and VB. I’ve blogged about it before but due to several extraneous factors I stopped using it for awhile.

A highly rated post on the VB MSDN Forum recently asked “How can I open up a web browser when a user clicks on a button?”

A frequent question I see on the forums is how can you drag controls around in a form with the mouse. Drag and drop is a very big and complex subject but this is one subset that can be implemented very quickly in VB. For this sample I’ve created a simple form with Visual Studio and added a TextBox named TextBox1. This sample will work for virtually any control though with a little modification.

Several people have asked on the newsgroups about a good method to bind a list of items to entries in a ToolStripDropDown instance. I’ve run into this issue a couple of times and wanted to share some sample code.