Microsoft KB Archive/154816

= How To Determine if DBCombo MatchEntry Property is Read- only =

Article ID: 154816

Article Last Modified on 7/13/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32-Bit Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q154816



SUMMARY
This article discusses how to determine whether the MatchEntry property of the DBCombo is read-only. When setting the MatchEntry property of a DBCombo control to "1 - Extended Matching"(at run time or design time), Visual Basic may report that the "Property is read-only."



MORE INFORMATION
Extended Matching may be used only when the DBCombo control has the Style property set to "2 - Dropdown List." This restriction is not documented.

Additionally, there is a bug in the Custom Properties dialog of the 32-bit DBCombo control. The Custom Properties dialog reports "Property is read only" if both the style is changed to "2 - Dropdown List," the MatchEntry property is changed to "1 - Extended Matching," and then the changes are applied. This error is not reported if the style is changed and applied first followed by changing and applying the MatchEntry property.

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