Trouble binding a BindingList to ListBox.

Question

In the app I'm working on, I need to maintain a list of Projects which are currently loaded, and display the names of each one in a ListBox (okay, multiple ListBoxes, but that's neither here nor there).

class Project
{
    public String Name;

    // Etc. etc...
}

I've got a BindingList object which contains all of the loaded Projects, and am binding it to my ListBox(es).

private BindingList<Project> project_list = new BindingList<Project>();
private ListBox project_listbox;

private void setList()
{
    project_listbox.DisplayMember = "Name";
    project_listbox.ValueMember = "Name";
    project_listbox.DataSource = project_list;
}

However when I do this, all that gets displayed in project_listbox is a set of the class names for the Project. Am I missing something here? Every reference that I could find regarding binding Lists to a ListBox uses a very similar setup.

Answer 1

As an aside, note that if you want to search on or sort the BindingList, you will need to implement it and add this functionality

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms993236.aspx