I am using a combo to perform a "contains" search on titles of publications.
There are cases where I do not want to have the user select a single publication.
I would like to just accept what they type in for a partial match, and then have a button that sets a SQL select to match all titles in the current combo entry.
I tested by entering three characters, but on the code-behind I don't know how to retrieve what was entered, as there is nothing "selected".
How do I grab that entry, preferably without any complicated client-side coding.
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The combo is bound to a SQL datasource and has automatic load on demand enabled.
Per the online help pages, I think "the control cannot be validated by value out of the box..." is relevant, but I cannot quite understand the client logic, as it pertains to getting beyond "out of the box..." on the server.