databinding to a combobox from webservice

[Dan Slaby]

I have a webservice that I want to populate a combobox on a windows form.
The webservice creates the correct XML output, but when I attempt to bind it
to a combobox I get this error:

Additional information: Cannot bind to property or column FullName on
DataSource.

This error occurs with the databindings. Here is the code:

--
Dim oDS As New DataService ' This is the webservice

Dim ds As New DataSet ' dataset to fill

ds = oDS.GetCounselors ' filling the dataset

cbCounselors.DataSource = ds.Tables("Counselors") 'combobox datasource

cbCounselors.DataBindings.Add("DisplayMember", ds, "FullName") '

cbCounselors.DataBindings.Add("ValueMember", ds, "StaffID")

Any help will be appreciated.

dan

[MasterGaurav]

How do you initialize oDS??

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[cecil]

Dan,
Your problem has nothing to do with using a web service. It is
the databinding code that is wrong. To fix your code:

cbCounselors.DataSource = ds.Tables("Counselors") 'combobox datasource
cbCounselors.DataBindings.Add("DisplayMember", ds.Tables("Counselors"),
"FullName") '
cbCounselors.DataBindings.Add("ValueMember", ds.Tables("Counselors"),
"StaffID")

Or even easier:

cbCounselors.DataSource = ds.Tables("Counselors")
cbCounselors.DisplayMember = "FullName"
cbCounselors.ValueMember = "StaffID"

Cecil Howell
www.ceciltech.com

Dan Slaby wrote:

I have a webservice that I want to populate a combobox on a windows form. The webservice creates the correct XML output, but when I attempt to bind it to a combobox I get this error:

Additional information: Cannot bind to property or column FullName on DataSource.

This error occurs with the databindings. Here is the code:

--
Dim oDS As New DataService ' This is the webservice

Dim ds As New DataSet ' dataset to fill

ds = oDS.GetCounselors ' filling the dataset

cbCounselors.DataSource = ds.Tables("Counselors") 'combobox datasource
cbCounselors.DataBindings.Add("DisplayMember", ds, "FullName") '

cbCounselors.DataBindings.Add("ValueMember", ds, "StaffID")

Any help will be appreciated.

dan

[Dan Slaby]

Thank you. I figured it out and matches your first databinding snippet. The
second didn't work for some reason.

Dan
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Dan,
Your problem has nothing to do with using a web service. It is
the databinding code that is wrong. To fix your code:

cbCounselors.DataSource = ds.Tables("Counselors") 'combobox datasource
cbCounselors.DataBindings.Add("DisplayMember", ds.Tables("Counselors"),
"FullName") '
cbCounselors.DataBindings.Add("ValueMember", ds.Tables("Counselors"),
"StaffID")

Or even easier:

cbCounselors.DataSource = ds.Tables("Counselors")
cbCounselors.DisplayMember = "FullName"
cbCounselors.ValueMember = "StaffID"

Cecil Howell
www.ceciltech.com

Dan Slaby wrote:

I have a webservice that I want to populate a combobox on a windows

form.

The webservice creates the correct XML output, but when I attempt to

bind it

to a combobox I get this error:

Additional information: Cannot bind to property or column FullName on

DataSource.

This error occurs with the databindings. Here is the code:

--
Dim oDS As New DataService ' This is the webservice

Dim ds As New DataSet ' dataset to fill

ds = oDS.GetCounselors ' filling the dataset

cbCounselors.DataSource = ds.Tables("Counselors") 'combobox

datasource

cbCounselors.DataBindings.Add("DisplayMember", ds, "FullName") '

cbCounselors.DataBindings.Add("ValueMember", ds, "StaffID")

Any help will be appreciated.

dan