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PRB: Bound TextBox No Longer Populates During Form's Load Event

Article ID: 172100

Article Last Modified on 1/8/2003

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Control Creation Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Learning Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition

This article was previously published under Q172100

SYMPTOMS

When a form is run, a bound Text box comes up blank even though a value is being stored to it's Text property in the Form's Load. In prior version of Visual Basic, the Text box came up populated if done in this manner.

RESOLUTION

In the Form's Load, instead of:

   Text1.Text = "This text should be in the text box."

   Data1.RecordSet("<field name>") = "Text to show."

STATUS

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Create a new Project.
On the new form, add a TextBox control and a DataControl.

Set the following DataControl's properties as shown:

      Data1
      .DatabaseName = nwind.mdb
      .RecordSource = customers

Set the following Text Control's properties as shown:

      Text1
      .DataSource = Data1
      .DataField = contactname

Place the following code in the Form's Load Method:

      Data1.Refresh
      Data1.Recordset.AddNew
      Text1.Text = "This text should be in the text box."

Run the form.

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