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How to populate combo box in Visual Basic 6?

Here in this source code sample we will discuss how to capture data from you Database Table and displays those data in a combo box.


In this method you can prevent data to be hard coded into your system, we will just have a lookup and displays those lookups in the combo box.

The Code:
First copy this code into your Modules

Option Explicit
    Dim conn As ADODB.connection
    Dim rs As ADODB.Recordset
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' pupulate element
' @author: Ken
' @date: checkDate 07/28/2009
Public Sub init()
    Set conn = New ADODB.connection
    Set rs = New ADODB.Recordset
        conn.connectionString = connectionString.connectionString
            With conn
                On Error GoTo errHandler
                .Open
            End With
        Exit Sub
errHandler:
    MsgBox Err.Description, vbCritical + vbOKOnly, " Admin: Populate Element Module - Init"
End Sub

Public Sub populateCombo(KeyToCollect As String, dboQuery As String, combo As ComboBox)
    Call init
    combo.Clear
            With rs
                'On Error GoTo errHandler
                On Error Resume Next
                If .State = adStateClosed Then
                    .Open dboQuery, conn, adOpenKeyset, adLockOptimistic
                End If
                    Do While Not .EOF
                        combo.AddItem .Fields(KeyToCollect)
                        .MoveNext
                    Loop
                .Close
            End With
        conn.Close
    Exit Sub
errHandler:
    MsgBox Err.Description, vbCritical + vbOKOnly, "Admin: Populate Element MOdule - Populate Combo: Error"
End Sub

'Next is calling the module:
Call PopulateElement.populateCombo("Your Query Here")

Just Experiment on the code and you'll see the best of it.
Good Luck!!!!