Hi,

I am getting the error message below displayed on a web form in design mode after exiting from the PopulationDataSourceSettings builder:



Immediately below the listbox are DropDownList and ListView Controls both of which display details from the ProductRangeBO correctly when the form is run.

I am using VS2008 and SQL Server 2008 on a Windows XP notebook for development. The notebook also has VS2003, VS2005 & VS2010 installed on it. I have version 1.7.3 of Stratrame installed according the the Help about screen in VS.

Any suggestions most gratefully received,

TIA,

Andy

Hi Trent,

not that I use this control, but I'm writing an article in french, presenting all SF lists and combos controls, both for winforms and webforms. And I confirm that this ListBox does not render in designer mode.

I may write the aspx code in source mode:

• I get that message (see listbox1.png attached)
  
  
  
  
• If I launch the designer after having written the code, all seems OK (see listbox2.png attached):
  
  
  
  
  
• And if I validate the designer by clicking OK, the result is... (see listbox3.png attached)
  
  
  

Hope it will help.

Michel:

All if this looks great.  You are correct that the ASPX doesn't rendering in the designer. This is functioning as it is supposed to.  I did notice that the designer is not in French, was this one of your concerns? 

Trent,

my concern is not that the designer is not in french (hope it will be soon ). No, my real concern is that it is impossible to design this control in the designer (and radiobuttonlist and checkboxlist and bulletedlist, too). The code generated by the designer is wrong.

Hmmmm....I have a number of folks that use the designer on a regular basis.  In fact, a week or so ago I sent a sample to someone using the designer and it worked. I will have to see if I can reproduce your steps.  The ListView is the primary list control used on the web side, and so this is what is generally used.  So you may be right on some of the lesser used controls.  I will take a look at this.

In truth, some of the controls will be getting face-lifts soon anyway.  The entire designer environment will be getting a face-list as well.  In SF 2.0 we will localize all of the design-time dialogs as well.  So you will be getting some lists to translate when we get to that point.

Trent,

Don't worry about this listview, I prefer you focus all your brain on 2.0
you know that french SF user either develop winforms app, either use third party controls for their web development, so nothing is urgent here.

Consider my brains dedicated to SF 2.0