winforms databinding works only on development machine

Question

I\'m targeting the framework 4.0 and this works fine on the development machine, I can see at startup the form with the textbox displaying binded message in it. But when I deplo

Answer 1

Breaking change in 4.0. See .Net 4.0 simple binding issue

The work around is to use a BindingSource:

public Form1() {
  InitializeComponent();
  _dataContext = new SimpleDataContext { Prop = new SimpleProp { Note = "hi!" } };
  BindingSource bs = new BindingSource(_dataContext, null);
  textBox1.DataBindings.Add("Text", bs, "Prop.Note");    
}