Working with a listbox

[mike55]

Hi all,

 

Am working with a listbox that contains a list of all the groups in a club. I want to cycle through the listbox firstly to determine the number of items in the listbox, I then want to count the number of items that have been selected, on calculating this number I can then create simple array to store the list of selected items.

 

Here is what I have tried so far:

       Dim length As Integer
       Dim selected As Integer
       Dim i As Integer

       length = 0
       selected = 0
       length = myDDList.Items.Count
       Console.WriteLine("*** START ***")

       For i = 0 To length - 1
           If (myDDList.Items(i).Selected.Equals(True)) Then
               selected = selected + 1
               Console.WriteLine("Selected = " & selected)
           End If
       Next
       Console.WriteLine("*** FINISH ***")

 

Now the code works perfectly if I add all the items via the properties fields "Item", however if I load the data from a database, the if statement always seems to return a false.

 

Any suggestions??

 

Mike55

[PlausiblyDamp]

Are you databinding the control on every Page_Load event? If so you will be erasing the contents and rebinding on every postback, you probably only want to load the data on the initial page load event.