C#: Using comboBoxes in dataset/datatable bound dataGridViews

//Build fkey combobox 

var fKeyCombo = new DataGridViewComboBoxColumn

{

// most of these are frequently string values or constants 

HeaderText = "States", // The column header text 

DisplayMember = "StateAbbreviation",

// what field from the fkey table to display (list of names) 

Name = "state", // will be the name you use when you reference the column in the dataGridView 

ValueMember = "Id", // fkey link column typically the column in the foreign key table you join the main table on 

DataPropertyName = "stateId" // main table field you are replacing with a comboBox 

};

BindingSource fkey1Binding = new BindingSource();

var Fkey1Table = db.getDs().TechObjTypes;

fkey1Binding.DataSource = Fkey1Table; fKeyCombo.DataSource = fkey1Binding;

dataGridView1.Columns.Add(fKeyCombo);

//Add other fkey columns here or just delete below, and use the snippet over again  

//Sets up the main Table for dataGridView binding comment out or delete if using multiple fkey snippets //best declared with a larger scope than this function so it can later be submitted to the tableAdapter for updates

var mainTable = DataSet1.mainTable();

var MainBinding = new BindingSource();

MainBinding.DataSource = mainTable;

dataGridView1.DataSource = MainBinding;

//Must call MainBinding.EndEdit(); after updates, so it will update the MainTable 

// then you can pass the mainTable to a dataAdapter to do all the updates. 

Regular Expressions :Regex.Replace()

I now have a coding blog, yay!

Today I learned how to match and replace at the same time in a Regex:

'remove leading = if it exists
lines(index) = Regex.Replace(lines(index), "(?\s*)=(?.+)", "${space}${therest}")
This makes use of named captures to remove a leading =, preserving opening whitespace.