ComboBox placeholder text (hint, cue banner, default text)

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You can simply set a String to the Text property of that Combobox. This will give you the desired behaviour. Keep in mind that your code must take into account that this combo may have not any item selected. You can check this by the SelectedIndex property that will be -1.

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