Tag: dropdownlist

Whenever I see a DropDownList control, my brain says “Yes! That is a ComboBox!” That’s because I’ve been programming in Visual Basic 6.0 for too long. VB6 has something called a ComboBox. It was given that name because it could be used in different ways. That was way cool but whenever I had to write a help file or explain an application to a customer, I couldn’t use the term “ComboBox” without them wrinkling their brow and frowning at me. The “combo” aspect of the control never made sense to users, only programmers. So I started calling it a drop-down list. That made more sense to the customer. No more wrinkled brows. No more frowns. (But sometimes in the middle of the night I would quietly whisper … “ComboBox! ComboBox!”).