Get Value of Item from List Box

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I want the Selected Items Value of a List box to a string. How can i do that. I want the value of the items not the text. Any one who will help will be most thankfull.

Posted 18-Aug-11 5:33am

Anil.Kuchan

Updated 5-Sep-19 5:04am

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CPallini 18-Aug-11 11:39am

What do you mean with 'the value of the items'? What have you filled the list box with?

Alan Burkhart 18-Aug-11 12:12pm

With a Winforms listbox, the text of an item is the value. I assume you're working with Winforms since the question is tagged for VB. Please specify a bit more what exactly what you're trying to do and I'll be glad to help. :-)

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Bert Mitton · Answer 1 · 2011-08-18T06:03:00

I'm going to assume that you have the listbox bound to a datatable. If so, I've had trouble with the SelectedValue myself.

What I've found works is to use the following to get the selected value:

VB

Listbox.SelectedItems(X)(Listbox.ValueMember)

Just replace "Listbox" with the name of your control, and "X" with the index of the selected item you're getting the value for.

If you're only allowing 1 selection at a time, then you can hardcode the "X" as 0.

Good luck!

Abhinav S · Answer 2 · 2011-08-18T06:35:00

Solution 2

If you have a string and you want to get the value out of that, you can have a look at this[^] and use the convert method.

Posted 18-Aug-11 6:35am

Abhinav S

lokesh.mavale · Answer 3 · 2011-08-19T06:52:00

I have a one gud Simplest way for you..!! you will love this.
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VB

Dim i As Integer
        Dim item(ListBox1.SelectedItems.Count - 1) As String

        For Each item(i) In ListBox1.SelectedItems
            ListBox2.Items.Add(item(i).ToString())
            i += 1
        Next

does it help u?

Arlo Weston · Answer 4 · 2019-09-05T05:04:00

OK - so maybe it is silly to post to this old question, but I found an answer that worked well for me. So here it is:

Dim selectedObj As itemsObj = TryCast(myListBox.SelectedItem, itemsObj)
If Not IsNothing(selectedObj) Then
      MsgBox(selectedObj.selectedProp)
End If

The itemsObj is the object that you had added to the ListBox, I did it like this myListBox.Add(itemsObj)

Get Value of Item from List Box

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