Auto-width of ComboBox's content

Does anybody know a way to set the ComboBox's content's width to autosize

I do not mean the ComboBox itself, just the opened content.

You can't use it directly.

Do a trick

First iterate through all items of your combobox, check for the width of every items by assigning the text to a label. Then, check width every time, if width of current item gets greater than previous items then change the maximum width.

int DropDownWidth(ComboBox myCombo)
{
    int maxWidth = 0;
    int temp = 0;
    Label label1 = new Label();

    foreach (var obj in myCombo.Items)
    {
        label1.Text = obj.ToString();
        temp = label1.PreferredWidth;
        if (temp > maxWidth)
        {
            maxWidth = temp;
        }
    }
    label1.Dispose();
    return maxWidth;           
}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    comboBox1.DropDownWidth = DropDownWidth(comboBox1);
}

OR

As suggested by stakx, you can use TextRenderer class

int DropDownWidth(ComboBox myCombo)
{
    int maxWidth = 0, temp = 0;
    foreach (var obj in myCombo.Items)
    {
        temp = TextRenderer.MeasureText(obj.ToString(), myCombo.Font).Width;
        if (temp > maxWidth)
        {
            maxWidth = temp;
        }
    }
    return maxWidth;
}

obj.ToString() doesn't work for me, I suggest to use myCombo.GetItemText(obj). This works for me:

private int DropDownWidth(ComboBox myCombo)
{
    int maxWidth = 0, temp = 0;
    foreach (var obj in myCombo.Items)
    {
        temp = TextRenderer.MeasureText(myCombo.GetItemText(obj), myCombo.Font).Width;
        if (temp > maxWidth)
        {
            maxWidth = temp;
        }
    }
    return maxWidth + SystemInformation.VerticalScrollBarWidth;
}

Here is very elegant solution. Just subscribe your combobox to this event handler:

 private void AdjustWidthComboBox_DropDown(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            var senderComboBox = (ComboBox)sender;
            int width = senderComboBox.DropDownWidth;
            Graphics g = senderComboBox.CreateGraphics();
            Font font = senderComboBox.Font;

            int vertScrollBarWidth = (senderComboBox.Items.Count > senderComboBox.MaxDropDownItems)
                    ? SystemInformation.VerticalScrollBarWidth : 0;

            var itemsList = senderComboBox.Items.Cast<object>().Select(item => item.ToString());

            foreach (string s in itemsList)
            {
                int newWidth = (int)g.MeasureString(s, font).Width + vertScrollBarWidth;

                if (width < newWidth)
                {
                    width = newWidth;
                }
            }

            senderComboBox.DropDownWidth = width;
        }

This code was taken from the codeproject: Adjust combo box drop down list width to longest string width. But I have modified it to work with comboboxes filled with any data (not only strings).

Mostly the same code as in Javed Akram's second suggestion, but the width of the vertical scroll bar is added:

int setWidth_comboBox(ComboBox cb)
{
  int maxWidth = 0, temp = 0;
  foreach (string s in cb.Items)
  {
    temp = TextRenderer.MeasureText(s, cb.Font).Width;
    if (temp > maxWidth)
    {
      maxWidth = temp;
    }
  }
  return maxWidth + SystemInformation.VerticalScrollBarWidth;
}

Use the code like this (on a form with a combobox with the name myComboBox):

myComboBox.Width = setWidth_comboBox(myComboBox);

Vote for algreat's answer below.

I simply modified algreat's answer with code resize the entire control.

I would have just added it as a comment but couldn't add formatted code on the comment.

private void combo_DropDown(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5801/Adjust-combo-box-drop-down-list-width-to-longest-s
    ComboBox senderComboBox = (ComboBox)sender;
    int width = senderComboBox.DropDownWidth;
    Graphics g = senderComboBox.CreateGraphics();
    Font font = senderComboBox.Font;
    int vertScrollBarWidth =
        (senderComboBox.Items.Count > senderComboBox.MaxDropDownItems)
        ? SystemInformation.VerticalScrollBarWidth : 0;

    int newWidth;
    foreach (string s in ((ComboBox)sender).Items)
    {
        newWidth = (int)g.MeasureString(s, font).Width
            + vertScrollBarWidth;
        if (width < newWidth)
        {
            width = newWidth;
        }

        if (senderComboBox.Width < newWidth)
        {
            senderComboBox.Width = newWidth+ SystemInformation.VerticalScrollBarWidth;
        }
    }
    senderComboBox.DropDownWidth = width;
}