I'm embarrassed to have to ask this question. It seems that I must be missing the most basic aspect of databinding (or at least the most basic aspect of looking something up with google), but I just can't figure this out without writing all sorts of event handlers and then manual binding controls to the data.
What I want is essentially a comboBox. That is, I want to have a ValueMember and a DisplayMember that hook up a master table with a selection from a related table based on an ID but displaying text. The problem with using a comboBox is that it is too simple and too small.
What I have is a contacts data table with many thousands of entries. I want the user to click on a button next to a textBox (much like you would with a comboBox) and get a list of these clients. However, because of its size, the list needs to be sortable, filterable, searchable, etc. So I have a form with a dataGridView and all the controls to do the above "find" of a contact.
It remains that when the user selects a contact, I need to store the contactDisplayName on the screen and the contactID in the master table. I'd really like to do this with databinding as opposed to writing my own.
I just can't believe I'm asking this question!
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