I have a DevExpress LookUpEdit and i want to populate it once... when the form loads. I dont think I need anything fancy like creating a BO and then a BBS... But I'm not sure how to do this...



I have a SQL statement and in Visual Studio 2003 I knew that you could create an adapter that filled a dataset and then bound your combobox to the dataset... but I dont see data adapter's in 2005 and even if i did... is that the best way to do it?



Thanks

Right. All I want to be able to do is fill a combo box once... when the form loads. It just seems to me to be a lot of extra/unnecessary work to create a business object then drop that business object onto a form... then drop a BBS onto a form and then bind the BBS to the BO and the combobox to the BBS.

You don't have to use a BBS or drop a BO on the form.  Have you ever populated a combo with the PopulationDataSourceSettings?  There is a property on all combos called PopulationDataSourceSettings that allows you to populate a combo from a business object. 

Look in the help under UI Layer -> List Control Population