listview equivalent to VB6 listindex

I am trying to get the following VB6 listindex to work within my vb.net code:

Code:

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    setTheR CStr(payReq.ItemData(payReq.ListIndex))

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But if i copy and paste that into VB.net it wont accept it.

This is what VB.net did with the converting of the VB6 to .net code:

Code:

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    strContract = payReq.Items.Item(payReq.FocusedItem.Index).Text

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However, checking that value it returns the name instead of the index. While the VB6 code returns the value of 2311 (which is what it needs to return)

When i add items to the listview i do this:

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    Item = payReq.Items.Add(rsPayRequests.Fields("userid").Value)
    Item.SubItems.Insert(1, New System.Windows.Forms.ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem(Nothing,  VB6.Format(rsPayRequests.Fields("reqdatetime").Value, "mm/dd/yyyy")))

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But i noticed it does this as well:

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    payReq.Items.Add(New VB6.ListBoxItem(Item, rsPayRequests.Fields("requestNum").Value))

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But that does not work with my listview in .net since that above is a listbox and not a listview. Is there an equivalent in .net for the listbox to have a custom index?

Any help would be great!

David

You say that you want the index of the item. here's your code:

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strContract = payReq.Items.Item(payReq.FocusedItem.Index).Text

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You already had the index but then you tried to do something fancy with it. If that's not what you actually want then please explain what you actually wnat. Forget code and talk about functionality. If you know what you want the code to do, then you can write code to do it.

I got it. Thanks for the reply though, jmcilhinney!

I ended up using the .tag on the listview itself. It served its perpose just fine.

Code:

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Item.Tag = payReq.Fields("requestNum").Value

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And i called it by using this (note, its .tag now instead of .value)

Code:

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strContract = payReq.Items.Item(payReq.FocusedItem.Index).Tag

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David