Help with creating a list, adding to it, calling it and putting it in a combobox with c#

Question

I have been making a word RPG game with the windows form in c#, and I have encountered some problems along the way. Right now I have a character creation screen, and a screen that displays all of the stats, and gear equipment. I was thinking about adding
some basic/starting items and put the list into a combobox. I created a separate class and named it HeadItems.cs, and put all of the possible stats, as well as ID and string name. I set a constructor with many parameters, so I can simply input this code, and
have it generate a head item.
HeadItems.Add(new HeadItem("Test Head", 0,2,0,0,1));
Then I was trying to make the combobox, called cboHeadItems, and put its DataSource as HeadItems. Though I am not sure how to get it so it displays the first array, or the string name in the combobox. I am also not sure if I should create the list in the
player entity class or its own class. From there I am not sure how to call the list on other forms/classes or how to make the name appear in the combobox for people to select.

Answer 1

Hiya!
It isn't that simple I'm afraid! You cant make the datasource of a combobox a 'HeadItem' because it doesn't know what that is and it won't know how to handle it.
There are a few different ways to do it. You can pass it an array, a dataset, a datatable to mention just a few.
Probably the simplest way is this:
foreach(HeadItem hi in HeadItems){
comboBox1.Items.Add(hi[0]); //Depends on your setup
Antony
:D