Fluent ComboBox configuration

While refactoring an application today, I had to configure a couple of ComboBoxes programmaticaly.
To simplify this, I cam up with the following piece of code.

    public class ComboboxBinder
    {
        //---- Members -----------------------------------------------------
        private readonly ComboBox _combobox;

        //---------------------------------------------------------
        private ComboboxBinder(ComboBox comboBox)
        {
            _combobox = comboBox;
        }

        //---------------------------------------------------------
        public static ComboboxBinder Bind(ComboBox cbo)
        {
            return new ComboboxBinder(cbo);
        }

        //---------------------------------------------------------
        public ComboboxBinder DataSource(object source)
        {
            _combobox.DataSource = source;
            return this;
        }
        
        //---------------------------------------------------------
        public ComboboxBinder ViewForDataSource(DataTable table)
        {
            return DataSource(new DataView(table));
        }
        //---------------------------------------------------------
        public ComboboxBinder ViewForDataSource(DataTable table, string filter)
        {
            return ViewForDataSource(table, filter, "");
        }

        //---------------------------------------------------------
        public ComboboxBinder ViewForDataSource(DataTable table, string filter, string sort)
        {
            var view = new DataView(table);
            view.RowFilter = filter;
            view.Sort = sort;
            return DataSource(view);
        }

        //---------------------------------------------------------
        public ComboboxBinder DisplayMember(string member)
        {
            _combobox.DisplayMember = member;
            return this;
        }

        //---------------------------------------------------------
        public ComboboxBinder ValueMember(string member)
        {
            _combobox.ValueMember = member;
            return this;
        }

        //---------------------------------------------------------
        public ComboboxBinder SelectedValue(object value)
        {
            _combobox.SelectedValue = value;
            return this;
        }

        //---------------------------------------------------------
        public ComboboxBinder SelectedIndex(int index)
        {
            _combobox.SelectedIndex = index;
            return this;
        }

    }

It implements a fluent interface to setup the ComboBox with a little less noisy code:

	ComboboxBinder.Bind(cboType)
                .ViewForDataSource(_typeTable, "", "Name")
                .DisplayMember("Name")
                .ValueMember("TypeID")
                .SelectedIndex(1);

        ComboboxBinder.Bind(cboState)
                .ViewForDataSource(_stateTable)
                .DisplayMember("Description")
                .ValueMember("StateID")
                .SelectedIndex(1);

Hopefully its useful for someone. Of course you would probably have it change it to fit your needs.

nothing impossible
roboto

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