Help with displaying partial column name from xml file in combobox using vb.net

Hi,

How do I modify the code below to only display the first 5 records in a table and also from the to the 12th record. i need to display records in a combobox depending on which categories chosen.

Private Sub Button8_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button8.Click
Dim xmlPath1 As String
Dim dtsetcol1 As New DataSet
xmlPath1 = System.IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath + "\MainTest.xml") 'grid1
dtsetcol1.Clear()
dtsetcol1.ReadXml(xmlPath1)
Me.ComboBox3.DataSource = dtsetcol1.Tables(0).Columns(0).ColumnName
End Sub

Thanks,

Victor

Hi Victor;

In order to get a solution to your question lets try it this way. The original post you posted will not work because of this line of code.

 Me.ComboBox3.DataSource = dtsetcol1.Tables(0).Columns(0).ColumnName

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You should have gotten an runtime exception something like "Complex DataBinding accepts as a data source either an IList or an IListSource.", the line of code is returning a data type of string which is the name of the column and not a IList. I changed the last line to what is shown in the code snippet below.

Private Sub Button8_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button8.Click                                          
    Dim xmlPath1 As String                                                                                                 
    Dim dtsetcol1 As New DataSet                                                                                           
    xmlPath1 = System.IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath + "\MainTest.xml")  'grid1                                   
    dtsetcol1.Clear()                                                                                                      
    dtsetcol1.ReadXml(xmlPath1)                                                                                            
    DataGridView1.DataSource = dtsetcol1.Tables(0)                                                                         
    Me.ComboBox3.DataSource = dtsetcol1.Tables(0).AsEnumerable().Select(Function(c) c.Field(Of String)("FieldsN")).ToList()                                                                                                                               
End Sub

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Fernando SotoRetiredCommented: 2016-09-26

Hi Victor;

To part of your question, "How do I modify the code below to only display the first 5 records ", The way you are loading the records does not allow for filtering the rows during the load. You can try removing the rows from the XML before loading or you can try removing/deleting the rows after the rows have been added.

To this part of the question, "also from the to the 12th record. i need to display records in a combobox depending on which categories chosen", do you mean "from the X to the 12th record." where X is a number from 0 to 11 and is determine at run time or something else?

vcharlesAuthor Commented: 2016-09-26

Hi Fernando,

Yes, x is a number from 0 and 11 and determined at run time, how do you remove the columns from the xml file and save yhe new file to a temp table to displays the records?

Thanks,

Victor

That would depend on the schema / structure of the XML. Please post an accurate representation of the XML file so I can show you how.

Hi Fernando,

Below is the structure of the xml file.

<Root>
<Fields>
<FieldsN>SN</FieldsN>
</Fields>
<Fields>
<FieldsN>COUNTRY</FieldsN>
</Fields>
<Fields>
<FieldsN>AGD4</FieldsN>
</Fields>
<Fields>
<FieldsN>FIF</FieldsN>
</Fields>
<Fields>
<FieldsN>NSN</FieldsN>
</Fields>
<Fields>
<FieldsN>RN</FieldsN>
</Fields>
<Fields>
<FieldsN>NAS</FieldsN>
</Fields>
</Root>

Thanks,

Victor

How will you want the list to be filtered / delete items so that they don't show up in the ComboBox?

vcharlesAuthor Commented: 2016-10-01

Hi Fernando,

Sorry for the late reply, Is it possible for the temp table to only contain the records I want to display?

Thanks,

Victor

Fernando SotoRetiredCommented: 2016-10-02

To your question, "Sorry for the late reply, Is it possible for the temp table to only contain the records I want to display? ", In short the answer is Yes. But that also will depend on what Temp Table is? Is it a .Net DataTable object, or an SQL Temp Table or something else and how you will be filtering the rows for the ones you want to display.

vcharlesAuthor Commented: 2016-10-02

Hi Fernando,

In previous post you suggested it may be best to delete the rows of the records I don't want to display, I would like to access to new file with deleted rows to a temp table using the .NET DataTable.

Thanks,

Victor

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Yes. Thank you.

Hi Victor; if that answered your question please close the question. Thank you.

Thank Yoi.

Not a problem Victor.

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