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Static (IsShared) property keeps getting reset

Hi there,

I have a control that I want to use in several files.

I have therefore set it up as:

public static System.Windows.Forms.Label label1;

All references to this in my main application I have changed from "this.label1" to "label1". In the other classes that I want to use this in, I inherit the main application and use "label1".

This all works.

However Visual Studio (.Net 2003 C#) keeps on automatically (every now and then) changing this back to the defaults:

public System.Windows.Forms.Label label1; // NO STATIC

And it changes all "label1" to "this.label1"

Has anyone experienced this? It's very annoying!

Hope you can help.

Thanks,

James

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AlexFM

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jamesnoe

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I have tried this - and it builds and runs OK - however I can no longer see the control in my application - this isn't really ideal - any ideas?

All I want to do is have a control that I can see, move around, edit etc... in the design view, and access it in multiple files without Visual Studio messing it up!

Thanks,

James

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jamesnoe

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But I have!

I have one file (let's call it myConstants) which looks like:

using System;

namespace My_Namespace
{
      public class myConstants
      {
            public static System.Windows.Forms.Label label1;

            public myConstants()
            {

            }
      }
}

In my MainApp file I have:

namespace My_Namespace
{
      public class MainApp : System.Windows.Forms.Form
      {
......... stuff here ..........

            private void InitializeComponent()
            {
                  myConstants.label1= new System.Windows.Forms.Label();

                  this.summaryBox.Controls.Add(myConstants.label1);
            }
      }

There's obviously loads of stuff cut out - but am I doing something daft?

I'm quite new to C# - so apologies if this is daft.

Thanks for the quick responses.

Cheers,

James

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jamesnoe

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Hi there,

Really odd! I used your code, and I essentially get the same behaviour. When I run the app I can see label1 - but when I go to the design view, I can't see it.

I copy/pasted your code in so I don't know if it's the code - any weird settings in Visual Studio...?

Any other coding options?

Thanks,

James

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jamesnoe

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Hi.

Thanks for all the comments - however I simply can't get it working.

What I've done now is rather than using static variables, I'm simply passing by reference.

I think this is a bug in Visual Studio

Thanks again,

James