How to use listbox in windows form

rulec444

The strangest thing is happening in my application and I can't figure out why. I have a ListBox that when I run my application it is not displaying on my form - not due to the location or because it wasn't added to the form, but due to the visibility property When I stepped through the code, for some reason the visible property is set to false. I did a complete find/search on the control and nowhere in the code, even the designer generated code is it ever set to Visible = false. I even added this code: if(lbxState01.Visible == false) { lbxState01.Visible = true; } and it still remained as Visible = false all the way through this statement. As a last resort, I closed the application, shut down VS.NET and rebooted, when I ran the application again, it did the same thing. Has anyone else ever seen this? Thanks.

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rulec44422y ago
Its weird, but there wasn't a "False" in there - I don't know where it was retaining it. Thanks for the direction - I got it fixed now. I appreciate the help!
Andrzej Wegierski22y ago
There should be: ... data name="lbxState01.Visible" ... with False Change False to True. If there aren't such position - it's Your error - try to change value of visible attribute of list box in designer to get proper value in resx. You can try to add something like it (to .resx): True but I didn't test it.
rulec44422y ago
Thanks for the suggestion - I had looked there but I don't know what to modify. This is the only thing in the file and none of it seems to relate to my situation: Private False Public I've made it public and I don't want it locked. Is there code I should be adding? Thanks again.
Andrzej Wegierski22y ago
From time to time - in big projects. Try to modify resx file (Xml tabpage) to get Visible=true. It's one of unusual VS designer errors, I think.