setting Form.Text in WinForms Form does not update the title

Question

I have this piece of code in my routine but it doesnt seem to work:

public MainForm()
{
  InitializeComponent();
  this.Text = "Elvis " + AssemblyVersion;
}

In my designer I had set the form title to "Elvis". I see that the AssemblyVersion info gets added to the text properly but the title doesnt get updated at all. I've tried refresh, invalidate etc, but nothing works. Any idea how I can update the title at runtime?

I am using .NET 3.5 and VS 2008.

thanks

Answer 1

This generally works just fine. Setting the Text property of a Form will change the title of the window. So can you post more code? It's possible your Text property is later getting overwritten without you realizing it.

Answer 2

I had the same issue and it was because of the Initialize components function that is changing the form's header, if you set the header using the constructor, it will be overwritten with the InitializeComponents function value. Solution: remove the form's property set in the InitializeComponent function.

Best regards, Chen

Answer 3

Try to put this

this.Text = "Elvis " + AssemblyVersion; 

on the onload event