listbox to use Product Name........

[DaMeng]

i'm filling a listbox to fill with *.exe files that are in a specified directory. these show up just fine. their Name is cr100.exe and cr200.exe. what i need help in figuring out is how to set the .Displaymember property to display the individual .exe files' Product Name.
i've created the .exe's they are reports. so i've given the attributes of the files Product name to have something in English. like Inventory Listing, and Balance Sheet. This is what i want to display in the listbox.

thanks, i'd appreciate some guidance here.

[witzulu]

How about something like this

Dim x as int16
dim ShortFilename as string
'exefilename = the full name of the file

ShortFilename = exefilename.substring(0,len(exefilename)-5)          'length - .exe(4 characters)-1

You can also use the len or filename.length

Hope this help

[DaMeng]

thanks for the reply, but i have no problem getting or displaying the Fullname of the EXE's in the listbox.
here is my code
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Try
sReportPath = GetProgPath()
Dim di As New DirectoryInfo(sReportPath)

With lstAvailReports
.DataSource = di.GetFiles("*.exe")
.DisplayMember = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(.DataSource)

End With
my line with the .DisplayMember = is wrong, but it's what i'm trying to get at.

the fullname is loaded in the datasource, as c:\program files\dc shell\cr100.exe and is index 0, the next file is index 1, etc.

if you look at the properties of an EXE file, one of the attributes is the Product Name. which is what i want to display in the listbox. ie. cr100.exe = Inventory Listing, but it needs to set for each file in the array for .datasource.

[witzulu]

Try doing a text search use substring and a for loop to run through the code

dim x as int16
dim filename as string

for x = len(exefilename) downto 0 
  if exefilename.substring(x,1) ="\" then
        exit for
   else
     filename &=exefilename.substring(x,1)
  endif

next

Ths way you search from the back of the string forward till you find the first "\" and then exits the loop

Hope this helps

[DaMeng]

thanks for your prompt responses. but you are missing the entire concept. i'm not trying to parse out the name of the file. this is all being done in .net using some of the build in file and directory classes. i don't need to parse the file name. reread and understand my previous posts, regarding the subject.

thanks for trying.