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

Yes I have populated combos and listviews using PopulationDataSourceSettings... I guess I misunderstood business objects a little. I assumed that you only created a BO for data that you would want to manipulate (add, edit, delete). I was under the assumption that creating a BO merely to populate a control was kind of a kludge and involved too much overhead.



But thanks for your input, i will use this method from now on.

Sorry for any misunderstanding...business objects themselves are just a class and are actually very light-weight...at any rate, glad you are going