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I had a TextBox that I had bound to a property on a class that implements INotifyProperyChanged.  No matter what I did, I just couldn't get the TextBox to update the bound property.  Each time the text box just reverted back to it's original value.  A simplified version of my class looked like this:

  public class KeyboardWedgeScanner : INotifyPropertyChanged
  {
    public TimeSpan ScanTimeout
    {
      get
      {
        return TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(timeoutTimer.Interval);
      }
      set
      {
        timeoutTimer.Interval = value.TotalMilliseconds;
        OnPropertyChanged("ScanTimeout");
      }
    }

    #region INotifyPropertyChanged Members

    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
    protected void OnPropertyChanged(String propertyName)
    {
      if (PropertyChanged != null)
      {
        PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
      }
    }

    #endregion
  }

In my form I bound the textbox with this in my constructor:

InScannerTimeout.DataBindings.Add("Text", scanner, "ScanTimeout");

This is exactly how a bound TextBoxes in another project and it worked fine there.  I messed around with the DataSourceUpdateMode parameter on an overload of Add but that didn't help either.  It wasn't until I set the formattingEnabled property to true did it start working:

InScannerTimeout.DataBindings.Add("Text", scanner, "ScanTimeout", true);

The only thing I can think of is that something about the TimeSpan class requires this to return the TextBox.Text's string value back into an instance of TimeSpan.