get text from list box?????

[cargobay69]

OK, I'm feeling really stupid. I'm using the VB.net ListBox control and I want to get the text of selected items listed in the ListBox, but I can't figure out which property or function can do that (looking for equililant to ListBox.List(Index) in VB 6.0) I've tried ListBox.GetItemText - doesn't work. Also tried ListBox.Items.[Everything] - doesn't work. And I've tried a number of other things including Help. Anybody know how I can do this?

Many Thanks...

[DevGrp]

Took me a while to figure out too:

here is the code

Private Sub ListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ListBox1.SelectedIndexChanged
        MessageBox.Show(Convert.ToString(ListBox1.SelectedItem))
End Sub

[Bananafish]

Dim intX As Int32
      For intX = 0 To ListBox1.Items.Count - 1
         MsgBox(ListBox1.Items.Item(intX), MsgBoxStyle.Information)
      Next

[cargobay69]

Thanks guys. Strange they made that one so abstract.

[Frans C]

I think this is because a listbox can now contain any object that has a ToString method.

If I did understand this correctly:
Because the Object class itselve provides a ToString method, and every object inherits from the Object class, the only objects that do not qualify would be the ones that override the ToString method PRIVATE.
Of course not every object would give the desired results, because the return value of the ToString method will be displayed in the listbox.