How to populate a ComboBox with a Recordset using VBA

Question

There is some literature available at expert\'s exchange and at teck republic about using the combobox.recordset property to populate a combobox in an Access form.

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Answer 1

To set a control that accepts a rowsource to a recordset you do the following:

Set recordset = currentDb.OpenRecordset("SELECT * FROM TABLE", dbOpenSnapshot)
Set control.recordset = recordset

Works with DAO Recordsets for sure, I haven't tried ADO recordsets because I don't have any real reason to use them.

When done this way, a simple requery will not work to refresh the data, you must do a repeat of the set statement.