Can't access NTFS drives after Elementary OS install

Question

Maybe this is a very simple question for you .NET guys but since I come from a MFC C++ dev teams, this behavior all got our dev team wondering what was going on. (In MFC, when we create a dropdown datasource, the source is shared but the value of each dropdown is not affected)

It's a very simple situation. I have 3 dropdownlist in my form that ask for streets. The street you are on and the others 2 closest streets. Each of these dropdownlist have the same datasource. So what we did is that (by the way ComboList is just a class that inherit ListItem with some more functions)

//Combo Street
ComboList cboNomRue = new ComboList();
Tools.GetCombo(cboNomRue, Tools.ComboTypeRt.RT_NOM_RUE, true, true);
ddlNomRue.DisplayMember = "Numero";
ddlNomRue.ValueMember = "ID";
ddlNomRue.DataSource = cboNomRue;

//Combo Street From
ddlDe.DisplayMember = "Numero";
ddlDe.ValueMember = "ID";
ddlDe.DataSource = cboNomRue;

//Combo Street To
ddlA.DisplayMember = "Numero";
ddlA.ValueMember = "ID";
ddlA.DataSource = cboNomRue;

Using this code, when the user change the value in ddlNomRue, the 3 dropdownlist change to that value! So to fix that, I did that.

//Combo Street
ComboList cboNomRue = new ComboList();
Tools.GetCombo(cboNomRue, Tools.ComboTypeRt.RT_NOM_RUE, true, true);
ddlNomRue.DisplayMember = "Numero";
ddlNomRue.ValueMember = "ID";
ddlNomRue.DataSource = cboNomRue;

ComboList cboNomRue2 = new ComboList(cboNomRue);
ComboList cboNomRue3 = new ComboList(cboNomRue);

//Combo Street From
ddlDe.DisplayMember = "Numero";
ddlDe.ValueMember = "ID";
ddlDe.DataSource = cboNomRue2;

//Combo Street To
ddlA.DisplayMember = "Numero";
ddlA.ValueMember = "ID";
ddlA.DataSource = cboNomRue3;

I don't like this since it's duplicating variables when only one is really needed. Is this the good way of dealing with this situation or is there anything else I could do?

Thanks

Solution 1

Make sure you have some packages installed:

sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs ntfs-config

If you do have those and it still isn't working, try this as well:

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

Solution 2

As far as i know NTFS-read&write is standard installed/enabled on most Ubuntu versions nowadays. For linux-n00bs (like myself) this worked perfectly: How to Mount Partitions Automatically on Start Up in Ubuntu 14.04

Comments

[paparazzo]

Is this WPF? I did this with ListView with no problem.

[Jean-François Côté]

This isn't WPF. And I didn't say that it was not working. It's working but I'm asking if there is a better way to deal with this situation.

[Jean-François Côté]

Thanks! The "AsReadOnly" was exactly the kind of thing I was searching for.

[Jean-François Côté]

I tried it but it doesn't work. Yes the 3 dropdown are not changing when one of them changes but they do not bind anymore (they all start at N/D instead of their value). Thanks anyway :)

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