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  • Adding System Wide ‘Auto Complete’ to your Textbox/Combobox Controls in Visual Basic 2005/2008

    Thursday, March 27th, 2008

     

     
    Note: This older article was taken from my vbcodesource.com website and is a year or 2 old. So take that into consideration...
       
      As you will see, adding Auto Complete support to textbox and combobox controls has NEVER been easier than it is now in Visual Basic.NET 2005. No longer do you HAVE to [...]

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    How to Autocomplete ComboBoxes like Textboxes using the APIs

    Thursday, August 16th, 2007

     

     
      I've seen this question before and the answer is pretty simple when you get a understanding of the control. When you use the handle associated with the Combobox, it is the main portion of the Control that the handle refers to and NOT the edit box which is the important part.
       
      Note: IF your [...]

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