How can a string array be databound to a ListBox?

Question

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.

Pat · Accepted Answer · 2009-08-05 02:38:04Z

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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;

answered Aug 5, 2009 at 2:38

Pat

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Brian Bassett Over a year ago

That was it... I've never seen a UI that works for the complex case but fails utterly at the trivial... :(

Kevin LaBranche · Accepted Answer · 2009-08-05 02:41:54Z

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

listbox.Items.AddRange(this.ProcessNames);

answered Aug 5, 2009 at 2:41

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Kevin LaBranche Over a year ago

scratch my solution... old c# syntax.... no longer valid in 2.0 and higher it seems....

John Boker · Accepted Answer · 2009-08-05 02:42:14Z

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this works for me in a simple test just now:

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

answered Aug 5, 2009 at 2:42

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Mike Cole Over a year ago

How do you make this work if alist is a globally scoped variable and you add more elements after databinding?

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