How to use databinding to bind text in my StatusBar with text in textbox

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I really hope anyone can help me with this. I am trying to retrieve the text from the StatusBarPanels by binding the text to a textbox, as suggested in How to get the TextChanged event of a StatusBarPanel[^]

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Private StatusTextbox As TextBox
Private WithEvents oBinding As Binding

For Each pan As System.Windows.Forms.StatusBarPanel In SB.Panels
     oBinding = New Binding("Text", pan, "Text")
     StatusTextbox.DataBindings.Add(oBinding)
     AddHandler StatusTextbox.TextChanged, AddressOf StatusTextIsChanged
Next pan

The event never fires, what am I doing wrong?
Thank you in advance.

Posted 16-Mar-11 6:48am

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Updated 16-Mar-11 8:42am

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#realJSOP · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-16T07:10:00

Are you trying to format the text before it's displayed? If so, you're going about it the wrong way. You need to handle the oBinding_Format event:

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Private Sub oBinding_Format(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.ConvertEventArgs) Handles oBinding.Format
    e.Value = Format(e.Value, "MM/dd/yy")
End Sub