How do I make a ListBox refresh its item text?

Question

I\'m making an example for someone who hasn\'t yet realized that controls like ListBox don\'t have to contain strings; he had been storing formatted strings and

Answer 1

If you derive from ListBox there is the RefreshItem protected method you can call. Just re-expose this method in your own type.

public class ListBox2 : ListBox {
    public void RefreshItem2(int index) {
        RefreshItem(index);
    }
}

Then change your designer file to use your own type (in this case, ListBox2).