Binding a generic List to a ComboBox

Question

I have a ComboBox and I want to bind a generic List to it. Can anyone see why the code below won\'t work? The binding source has data in it, but it won\'t fill the ComboBox

Answer 1

this is the simple way (it works correctly):

List my_list = new List();
my_list.Add("item 1");
my_list.Add("item 2");
my_list.Add("item 3");
my_list.Add("item 4");
my_list.Add("item 5");
comboBox1.DataSource = my_list;