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    wpf comboboxes causeing null reference crash when visibility or width used in code

    I filled a combobox in codebehind and it works correctly. I also set its visibilty to visibility.collapsed in the same function without problem.

    when I try to set it to visibility.collapsed later (checkbox checked event) I crash saying something is null. Same thing if I try to set isenabled or anything else. I would think it was a scope problem but it is declared in wpf so it should be available to all code in the codebehind right? If that was the problem then I shouldn't have been able to populated the list from codebehind either as far as I know.

    Any thoughts?

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    Re: wpf comboboxes causeing null reference crash when visibility or width used in cod

    Quote Originally Posted by pmeloy View Post
    I crash saying something is null.
    The first thing to do is work out what is null. That's what you have a debugger for. Once you know what is null, then you can work backwards to work out why.

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    Re: wpf comboboxes causeing null reference crash when visibility or width used in cod

    No idea what is null. The exception shows up at the title of the wpf page
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    <Window x:Class="AdminProfitLoss"
    BUT, you twigged a thought so I added a "loading" variable that is true at startup and false after the loading is complete and ignored any settings while it is true. Now it works fine!
    I guess it was a case of the combobox not being created before the form_load was being run. I had thought the WPF code was loaded first but I guess not

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