score:1

suposing your artist have a name and an id, you can do this:

combobox1.datavaluefield = "id";
combobox1.datatextfield = "name";

combobox1.datasource = formbyartist.db.artists;
combobox1.databind();

score:1

from your existing sample, modify as follows:

var artistnames = 
    (from name in formbyartist.db.artists    
     select name.name)
    .tolist();

combobox1.datasource = artistnames;

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