ListBox

ListBox

• Marc2002

  Hi,

  Try This

  You can change the values of the display variable.

  Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

  Dim display As String = "ron" + " " + "nash"

  With ListBox1

  .Items.Clear()

  .DisplayMember = "display"

  .Items.Add(display)

  End With

  End Sub

  Hope this Helps

  
  

• AliSyed

  I tried to combine it and I get this message in my listbox

  System.Data.DataRowView

  Here's how I coded it.

  Me.ListBox1.DataSource = DbDataSet.Names

  Me.ListBox1.DisplayMember = "FirstName" + "LastName"

  
  
  

• Calmin

  Hi.

  Is your problem solved
  
  Thank you,
  Bhanu.

  
  
  

• Kelvin Lush

  That is correct - this listbox is designed to show a single column of items.

  If you want to display more than one item you have a couple of options - concatenate (combine) the items into a single string that you can add the to the listbox

  Example

  List Items 1 (First)
  List Items 2 / (Second)
  List Items 3 | (Third)

  Where the second item you want is wrapped in parenthesis or separated by / or | characters of something like that. Often not an ideal solution.

  Another is to use a Listviewcontrol which you can establish in a details view mode and it in effect acts like a multi column listbox - takes a bit more effort to populate it but this may be an option.

  Or find a third party custom control that enables you to do a multi column listbox (suppliers like infragistics and Component One are two that have a range of controls which go beyond the basic windows controls supplied )

  In my opinion a multi column listbox is something which I would have like for years now in the standard controls but it hasnt appeared so depending upon the circumstances you have to work around it..

  
  

• bwells

  You cant do that with databinding the display member has to be a single field in the data source.

  Concatenating is possible if you are manually populating the listbox by iterating through a dataset and combining the values of multiple fields into a string, or you could modify the SQL statement that populates the datasource so there is a single field which is a combination of the fields you want to display - that way you displaymember will still be a single field in the datasource.

  
  
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