Listbox display all items

[Talk2Tom11]

ok i have a listbox with a few rows of data. I am having the data be read as a string into a word document.

 

I want to be able to read the whole listbox as a string.

 

So far I have only been able to get it to read one line. This is the code i used for that... listbox1.SelectedItem. Is there anyway to have it use the whole thing and not just one selected item???

[snarfblam]

You should be able to iterate through all the items (the Items property) using a For Each loop, and join them together into one long string, using whatever you like as a separator, though it will probably be a comma or a new line. How is the ListBox populated? I'm not sure if this would work with a databound ListBox.

[amir100]

As marble_eater said. You should use the Items property in Web Application. But it would be best to use the SelectedItems property in a Windows Application. I believe it would work even if you're using a databound listbox because binding means filling the Items. So we should be able to access the Items of the ListBox.

[snarfblam]

Using SelectedItems would only enumerate selected items. Assuming you would like to enumerate all items, you should use the Items property.

[amir100]

Using SelectedItems would only enumerate selected items. Assuming you would like to enumerate all items, you should use the Items property.

 

Thx for the correction. I kinda miss the "using the whole thing" in the question. I'm not adding anything more to this thread. Although I was wondering why would Talk2Tom11 loads the data to a listbox when in the end the items will be concatenate as a whole string. :confused: