vb.net - Combo Box items - Display Member for List(Of String)?

Question

My project is in Visual Basic. I am trying to create a custom & savable "filter" for a DataGridView using several TextBoxes. Right now, any List(Of String) that is added to the Combo Box is displayed in the box as (Collection). I want my users to be able to select the one they created, so I would like the Lists to have a display name that can be selected in the Combo Box. Here is some of the code.

Dim savedFilter As New List(Of String)
savedFilter.Add(NameTextBox.Text)
savedFilter.Add(AgeTextBox.Text)
savedFilter.Add(NotesTextBox.Text)
ComboBoxSavedFilters.Items.Add(savedFilter)

Is it possible to add a display name for a List?

Answer 1

Or if you are lazy use buid-in generic class Tuple From MSDN.

Create collection of Tuple(Of String, List(Of String)) and use approach suggested by @Plutonix for binding collection to ComboBox

Dim savedFilter As New List(Of Tuple(Of String, List(Of String)))()
savedFilter.Add(
    Tuple.Create("default",
                 New List From {"filter1", "filter2", "filter3"}))
savedFilter.Add(
    Tuple.Create("Blue ones", 
                 New List From {"filter4", "filter5"}))
savedFilter.Add(
    Tuple.Create("Old ones", 
                 New List From {NameTextBox.Text, AgeTextBox.Text, NotesTextBox.Text}))

With ComboBoxSavedFilters
    .DisplayMember = "Item1" 'Name of first property in Tuple type
    .ValueMember = "Item2" 'Name of second property in Tuple type -List 
    .DataSource = savedFilter       
End With

Then SelectedValue will contain currently selected filter's collection, which can be accessed like that

Dim filter As List(Of String) =
    DirectCast(Me.ComboBoxSavedFilters.SelectedValue, List(Of String))