design time databinding

[Stephen]

I have a form with a ListBox and would like to set the DataSource property
at design-time but I can't seem to declare any kind of variable that will
show up in the list. I have tried a traditional array, ArrayList,
Collection as public vars in the Form Class's Declarations section. Setting
the DataSource property to any of these works fine at run time.

I want to do it at design time because after I change the Collection, it
doesn't update it in the ListBox, even though breaking showed that the
Collection.Count property had gone up. I first add to it in code with
Coll.Add("XXX") and it shows up fine, before and after binding. But I try
to do this: Coll.Add(TextBox1.Text) and it doesn't show up in the ListBox
but is apparently being added to the collection object just fine.

Any answer to either of these questions would be helpful
Thanks,
Stephen

[Kevin Yu]

Hi Stephen,

Since the refresh of ListBox doesn't work when items are added or removed
from the arraylist, the simplest workaround is to reset the DataSource
property of the ListBox. you can try the following code to achieve this.

arraylist.Add("Whatever")
listbox.DataSource = Nothing
listbox.DataSource = arraylist

You cannot omit the second line, because if you simply set the
listbox.DataSource to arraylist, the listbox will check if the new
DataSource is the same as the old one. (The listbox doesn't know that the
arraylist has changed, it only knows that they are the same object
reference.)

Does this answer your question? If anything is unclear, please feel free to
reply to the post.

Kevin Yu
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| I have a form with a ListBox and would like to set the DataSource property
| at design-time but I can't seem to declare any kind of variable that will
| show up in the list. I have tried a traditional array, ArrayList,
| Collection as public vars in the Form Class's Declarations section.
Setting
| the DataSource property to any of these works fine at run time.
|
| I want to do it at design time because after I change the Collection, it
| doesn't update it in the ListBox, even though breaking showed that the
| Collection.Count property had gone up. I first add to it in code with
| Coll.Add("XXX") and it shows up fine, before and after binding. But I try
| to do this: Coll.Add(TextBox1.Text) and it doesn't show up in the ListBox
| but is apparently being added to the collection object just fine.
|
| Any answer to either of these questions would be helpful
| Thanks,
| Stephen
|
|
|