Hi all,

i need some help here plz :)
i'm building a small application that will dispaly a list of folders
in a listbox, but i only want to display the folder name rather than
the whole path, so i take the substring from the whole path and add it
to the listbox.
the problem is, later, when the user selects to do anything with this
file, i want to get the whole path back(mandatory), but now i only
have the the name and not the path.

the dummy solution i do, is to get the index of the selected index and
then get the path from teh path list at that index, but i don't like
such a solution, i think its not professional nor efficient.

so any ideas??

i'm using VS2003, c# to build a desktop application


thanks for time and help

Hi,

you could create a DataTable with two columns. One contains the whole
path and one only the part that should get displayed. Bind that
Datatable to your ListBox as a Datasource and set the listbox's
DisplayMember and ValueMember properties to the name of your first and
second column respectively. To get the value you simply query the
Listbox1.SelectedValue property and you are done...

Add a listbox to your Form to get this code running.

DataTable myDataTable = new DataTable();
myDataTable.Columns.Add("Value");
myDataTable.Columns.Add("Text");
myDataTable.Rows.Add(new object[] { @"C:\Windows",
"Windows" });
listBox1.DataSource = myDataTable;
listBox1.DisplayMember =
myDataTable.Columns[1].ColumnName;
listBox1.ValueMember = myDataTable.Columns[0].ColumnName;

listBox1.SelectedIndex = 0;
MessageBox.Show( listBox1.SelectedValue.ToString() );

Another Tip: Try to use the class System.IO.Path - It can save you a
lot of work and you don't need to substring the paths...

Hope that was of any help - regards

xxxx schrieb:

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