I have a WPF ComboBox in my XAML file. And I want to Force the ComboBox to show its list items when I press F5. For this requirement, we have a property ‘IsDropDownOpen’ of ComboBox, which I set to True.
cmbCountry.IsDropDownOpen = true;
<Window x:Class="ComboBoxDemo.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="ComboBoxF5Demo" Height="350" Width="425" Background="#98dafc">
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock Text="Press F5 to Open DropDown List" FontSize="20" Margin="20" HorizontalAlignment="Center" />
<ComboBox x:Name="cmbCountry" HorizontalAlignment="Left" IsEditable="True" Margin="110,30,0,0"
SelectedIndex="0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="40" FontSize="20" Width="200">
<ComboBoxItem Content="--Select--" />
<ComboBoxItem Content="India" />
<ComboBoxItem Content="US" />
<ComboBoxItem Content="France" />
<ComboBoxItem Content="SwitzerLand" />
</ComboBox>
</StackPanel>
</Window>
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Input;
namespace ComboBoxDemo
{
/// <summary>
/// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
/// </summary>
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
cmbCountry.KeyDown += cmbCountry_KeyDown;
}
/// <summary>
/// Occurs when a key is pressed while focus is on this element.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sender"></param>
/// <param name="e"></param>
void cmbCountry_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Key == Key.F5)
cmbCountry.IsDropDownOpen = true;
}
}
}
