PropertyGrid control and drop-down lists

Question

I wanted to create a drop-down list as the editor for a property; If I had only strings as entries for the dropdown list, this would work fine (Using a StringConverter). However

Answer 1

I added the CanConvertFrom and ConvertFrom methods to your conversion class:

class BarConverter : TypeConverter
{
  public override bool GetStandardValuesSupported(ITypeDescriptorContext context)
  {
    return true;
  }

  public override StandardValuesCollection GetStandardValues(ITypeDescriptorContext context)
  {
    return new StandardValuesCollection(barlist);
  }

  public override bool CanConvertFrom(ITypeDescriptorContext context, Type sourceType)
  {
    if (sourceType == typeof(string))
    {
      return true;
    }
    return base.CanConvertFrom(context, sourceType);
  }

  public override object ConvertFrom(ITypeDescriptorContext context, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture, object value)
  {
    if (value is string)
    {
      foreach (Bar b in barlist)
      {
        if (b.barvalue == (string)value)
        {
          return b;
        }
      }
    }
    return base.ConvertFrom(context, culture, value);
  }
}