ComboBox Item How to remove repeating items that came from an entity of a .dbf database

Question

Hi all,
Can somebody help me? What  I want to happen is create a ComboBox Item from a .dbf database, the PMXMON contains each product's monthly data. Here's a screenshot of the output:
Is there a way to remove repeating items without changing the database contents?
I have this code:
Private Sub frmYearMonth_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim conn As New System.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection("Driver={Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver};SourceType=DBF;SourceDB=C:\;Exclusive=No")
conn.Open()
Dim strQuery As String = "SELECT * FROM CSHPMXP1"
Dim adapter As New System.Data.Odbc.OdbcDataAdapter(strQuery, conn)
Dim ds As New System.Data.DataSet()
adapter.Fill(ds, "PMXMON")
With ComboBox1
.DataSource = ds.Tables("PMXMON")
.DisplayMember = "PMXMON"
.ValueMember = "PMXMON"
.SelectedIndex = 0
.Text = "--YYYYmm--"
End With
End Sub
Thanks :)
Geee

Answer 1

You can use Distinct keyword to return unique records from your DB.
On the side  I'm not seeing any informative value in your Comobox, if you trying to show product monthly data.
SELECT Distinct PMXMON
FROM CSHPMXP1
Fouad Roumieh