Chad,

>Might it not just need to be scoped public? Isn't it protected by default?<

Yes and no. You're right that it's not scoped public, but that's not the problem. DataBinding requires an actual property, not just a public variable. It needs to have the get/set. Plus, in messing with it, I also see that the property itself can't be static. In fact, it doesn't work at all without an instantiated class (I got compiler errors), so I'm not sure how Pete got his example to even compile.

~~Bonnie



>
>HTH,
>Chad
>
>>Try making it a property (with get/set), then it might work (I haven't tried it though).
>>
>>~~Bonnie
>>
>>
>>>Hello All, is it possible to bind a textbox's "Text" property to a field of a static class ? ( I hope I worded that correctly ? ) this is what I've tried but it fails at runtime with the error: "cannot create a child list...", any help much appreciated
>>>
>>>e.g.
>>>
>>>

>>>class myclass
>>>{
>>>    static string mystring = "Pete";
>>>}
>>>
>>>
>>>// Then from a form somewhere
>>>
>>>this.txtMytextbox.DataBindings.Add("Text",myclass,"mystring");
>>>