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Brian Bassett
Brian Bassett

Reputation: 651

How can a string array be databound to a ListBox?

I'm relatively new to .NET GUI programming using WinForms (the project I'm working on is targetting .NET 2.0 for deployment reasons), and I'm trying to bind a ListBox in a Form to a string[] property that is defined in the form:

namespace AVPriorityUI
{
    public partial class AVPriorityUI : Form
    {
        public AVPriorityUI()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        public string[] ProcessNames
        {
            get { ... }
            set { ... }
        }
    }
}

No matter what I do, I can't get Visual Studio 2008 to offer up the ProcessNames property as a valid source to bind to. What do I need to do differently to make this work?

[EDIT] I've been trying to use the GUI to establish the binding.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3882

Answers (3)

John Boker
John Boker

Reputation: 83699

this works for me in a simple test just now: 

string[] alist = { "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h" };
listBox1.DataSource = alist;

Upvotes: 0

Kevin LaBranche
Kevin LaBranche

Reputation: 21078

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288424(VS.71).aspx

listbox.Items.AddRange(this.ProcessNames);

Upvotes: 0

Pat
Pat

Reputation: 5282

You should be able to set the list box's DataSource to the ProcessNames property in the code itself. If you are trying to use the UI to set the DataSources/Bindings that may be the culprit.

ie:

mylistBox.DataSource = this.ProcessNames;

Upvotes: 1

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