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ListBox Control

By James Crowley, published on 14 Jul 2001
James Crowley James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience ...
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  1. Introduction
  2. Styles
  3. Properties and Events
  4. Adding Items
  5. Removing Items
  6. Getting the selected items
  7. Using the CheckListBox
  8. Select an item using the right mouse button

Introduction

The list box control is very similar to the Combo Box control, and is useful for getting the user to select an option from a fixed list, and when you are happy to display more than one item at a time (ie when space is not at a premium).

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Comments

  1. kamisori
    19 Mar 2007 at 07:33

    When i need right click selection for some list controls i'm just using ListView control instead of ListBox. Can't see any reason why to write any additional code. Simplicity must be kept in everything!

  2. Aditya Arun
    16 Jan 2006 at 06:01

    Suppose I have numeric values in my listbox. How do I add them and display the result on a message box.

  3. vandana
    30 Jul 2005 at 08:54

    How to lock particular item in the list box in visual basic?

  4. Developer Fusion Bot
    01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

    This thread is for discussions of ListBox Control.

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