Databinding to TextBox

[Wild Thing]

Hi everybody, I'm trying to bind a class variable to a textbox. the data class looks like:

public class route
{
    public string name { get; set; }
    public int adress { get; set; }

    public route()
    {
        name = "";
        adress = 0;
    }
}
public class adr
{
    public int index { get; set; }

    public route r1 { get; set; }
    public route r2 { get; set; }
    public adr()
    {
        index = 0;
        r1 = new route();
        r2 = new route();
    }
}

public class para
{
    public int i1 { get; set; }
    public int i2 { get; set; }
}

public class adrData
{
    public string label { get; set; }
    public adr ad { get; set; }
    public para pa { get; set; }
}

When I try to bind f.e. ad.r1.name to a textbox text via designer, it offers only label, ad and pa for binding. What am I missing here? Thnx adv for your answers.

[Lost User]

What type is "ad.r1.name"? As far as I can see from your code, there's only one "name" property, and that's a string, whereas the bindin-options imply that "name" contains an adrData?

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[Wild Thing]

its a tree structure: the string name is an element of class route, route r1 is an element of class adr, adr ad is an element of class adrData.

[BillWoodruff]

First, I think you need to add a constructor to 'adrData:

public class adrData
{
public string label { get; set; }
public adr ad { get; set; }
public para pa { get; set; }

// ctor
public adrData()
{
    label = "";
    ad = new adr();
    pa = new para();
}

}

Then, in code, you can do something like this:

adrData newAdrData = new adrData();

newAdrData.ad.r1.name = "Route Name #1";

textBox1.DataBindings.Add("Text", newAdrData, "ad.r1.name");

To bind to a specific instance of 'adrData. Unless you create a new instance of 'ad, within 'adrData, then you never initialize the 'routes: because only creating a new instance of 'adr will initialize the 'routes.

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