This might help someone...

I am new to VB.Net. And for some reason this took me awhile to figure out how to do. I basically have a Listbox being populated by a dataset. Well using the dataview. After it was populated for the selecteditem property of the listbox was something like system.data.datarow
Something Like that.

Here is alittle code to help get the text that is selected in the listbox after populating it with a dataset.

<vbscript>
Dim i As Integer
dim sSelectedText as String
i = lstData.SelectedIndex
sSelectedText = lstData.GetItemText(lstData.SelectedValue)
Call MessageBox.Show(sSelectedText)
</vbscript>

Hope this helps someone. It gave me a headache...but it seems that comes with trying to migrate from vb6 to .net

did this not work then ...

VB Code:

MessageBox.Show(ListBox1.SelectedItem)

cuz that should show you the selected item also.

no ....
instead of what was selected it returned.
System.data.datarow

or something like that.

If you set the valuemember property of the listbox to the fieldname of the field you want to show then you can use SelecteValue. Otherwise you can use SelectedItem and cast it to a dataviewrow then pick whatever field you want to show.

PS: The Valuemember and Displaymember properties are case sensitive.

VB Code:

'using valuemember
'as long as the valuemember property is set like this:
ListBox1.ValueMember = "record_Text"
'then this will work
MsgBox(ListBox1.SelectedValue)
 
 
'using selecteditem
MsgBox(DirectCast(ListBox1.SelectedItem, Data.DataRowView)("record_Text").ToString)
'this way doesn't matter if valuemember is set you just have to cast
'to a dataviewrow and pick your field

Quote:

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Originally posted by Edneeis
PS: The Valuemember and Displaymember properties are case sensitive.

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A real good point.
Also I expect Edneeis (as a guru) to use MessageBox.Show so that newbies like me learn better syntax of .NET.

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