ListBoxes and TreeViews, question

I have been searching, I've looked in my VB book and I CANNOT find anything on this, so here goes..

How can I get the label the person clicks on in a listbox or treeview?

Like The list box will say

Code:

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Cookies
People
Cars

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When someone clicks on People, how can I actually get the string "people"? I know how to make it do something on click, but the words will be 100% different probably everytime it's loaded so I can't hard code SelectedIndices.Contains(1) to do what the string "people" would do, because it will probably be in different positions at run time depending on many different things and options.

Erm I hope I explains that correctly.

If you have a listbox1 , full of items and highlight an item, then click on Button1 with the following code behind it:

VB Code:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        MessageBox.Show(ListBox1.Items(ListBox1.SelectedIndex))
End Sub

it will display the text.

Thanks, works like a charm :D

Anyone got answer to my treeview?

not sure if this is what you want....
by button click >>>

VB Code:

[COLOR=BLUE]Private[/COLOR] [COLOR=BLUE]Sub[/COLOR] Button1_Click([COLOR=BLUE]ByVal[/COLOR] sender [COLOR=BLUE]As[/COLOR] System.Object, [COLOR=BLUE]ByVal[/COLOR] e [COLOR=BLUE]As[/COLOR] System.EventArgs) [COLOR=BLUE]Handles[/COLOR] Button1.Click
        [COLOR=BLUE]If[/COLOR] [COLOR=BLUE]Not[/COLOR] TreeView1.SelectedNode [COLOR=BLUE]Is[/COLOR] [COLOR=BLUE]Nothing[/COLOR] [COLOR=BLUE]Then
[/COLOR]            MessageBox.Show(TreeView1.SelectedNode.Text)
        [COLOR=BLUE]End[/COLOR] [COLOR=BLUE]If
[/COLOR]    [COLOR=BLUE]End[/COLOR] [COLOR=BLUE]Sub[/COLOR]

or on mouse event...

VB Code:

[COLOR=BLUE]Private[/COLOR] [COLOR=BLUE]Sub[/COLOR] TreeView1_MouseUp([COLOR=BLUE]ByVal[/COLOR] sender [COLOR=BLUE]As[/COLOR] [COLOR=BLUE]Object[/COLOR], [COLOR=BLUE]ByVal[/COLOR] e [COLOR=BLUE]As[/COLOR] System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) [COLOR=BLUE]Handles[/COLOR] TreeView1.MouseUp
        MessageBox.Show(TreeView1.SelectedNode.Text)
    [COLOR=BLUE]End[/COLOR] [COLOR=BLUE]Sub[/COLOR]