I have a project wherein I derive a combobox and create a custom Populate()
method for it to fill it with objects of a custom class I also created in a
second project that the combobox project references. This custom class has
the ToString function overridden to display certain information.
Everything worked fine until one day the combobox started displaying
"AssemblyName.C lassName" (e.g. "MyProject.MyCu stomClass") instead of the
appropriate value that the overridden ToString is supposed to return. It's
like the combobox is using the base Object.Tostring method instead of my
overridden one.
Sometimes the problem goes away after making unrelated changes in the
combobox project and then recompiling it a few times. However, it will
always suddenly stop working later on. I suspect this happens after
significant, yet completely unrelated, changes are made to the project that
contains the original custom class (even though the custom class itself is
untouched).
After fiddling around with stuff in the combobox propject it will randomly
start working again. Even when the temporary changes made in order to bring
about the random 'fix' are undone. Basically what I'm saying is that this
change in behavior appears to have nothing to do with the code for the
components involved.
This is just driving me crazy. None of the code that is involved in the
combobox or the class whose objects are used to populated are being modified
at all, yet it randomly stops working properly.
It sounds like someone else had a similar problem (
http://groups.google.ca/group/micros...35637a628db41f )
, though this is not exactly the same problem I am having
Has anyone experienced anything like this at all?
- Don
PS: I'm using the 1.1 framework on WinXP SP2 and am manually setting the
versions of all our projects (they have remained static throughout this). I
suspect a Microsft update is the culprit because this all started happening
after an automatic update was installed (not sure which, though). Yes I've
tried reinstalling the .NET framework.
method for it to fill it with objects of a custom class I also created in a
second project that the combobox project references. This custom class has
the ToString function overridden to display certain information.
Everything worked fine until one day the combobox started displaying
"AssemblyName.C lassName" (e.g. "MyProject.MyCu stomClass") instead of the
appropriate value that the overridden ToString is supposed to return. It's
like the combobox is using the base Object.Tostring method instead of my
overridden one.
Sometimes the problem goes away after making unrelated changes in the
combobox project and then recompiling it a few times. However, it will
always suddenly stop working later on. I suspect this happens after
significant, yet completely unrelated, changes are made to the project that
contains the original custom class (even though the custom class itself is
untouched).
After fiddling around with stuff in the combobox propject it will randomly
start working again. Even when the temporary changes made in order to bring
about the random 'fix' are undone. Basically what I'm saying is that this
change in behavior appears to have nothing to do with the code for the
components involved.
This is just driving me crazy. None of the code that is involved in the
combobox or the class whose objects are used to populated are being modified
at all, yet it randomly stops working properly.
It sounds like someone else had a similar problem (
http://groups.google.ca/group/micros...35637a628db41f )
, though this is not exactly the same problem I am having
Has anyone experienced anything like this at all?
- Don
PS: I'm using the 1.1 framework on WinXP SP2 and am manually setting the
versions of all our projects (they have remained static throughout this). I
suspect a Microsft update is the culprit because this all started happening
after an automatic update was installed (not sure which, though). Yes I've
tried reinstalling the .NET framework.
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