Hi - I am new to VB and I'm working on a project. I have a list box where users can select more than one name from a list. I can't seem to get my code to work. Any suggestions? I think I'm missing a piece of the code but for the life of me, I can't figure it out. Here is my code.

Private Sub MainForm_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles _
Me.Load

' fills the list box with values

namesListBox.Items.Add(Convert.ToString("Debbie"))
namesListBox.Items.Add(Convert.ToString("Bill"))
namesListBox.Items.Add(Convert.ToString("Jim"))
namesListBox.Items.Add(Convert.ToString("Ahmad"))
namesListBox.Items.Add(Convert.ToString("Carol"))
namesListBox.SelectedIndex = 0

End Sub

Private Sub multiButton_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles _
multiButton.Click

Dim SELECTED_NAMES As String

For INDEX As Integer = 0 To namesListBox.SelectedItems.Count - 1
SELECTED_NAMES = namesListBox.SelectedItems.ToString & " " &
resultLabel.Text.ToString & " " &
ControlChars.NewLine
INDEX += 1
Next INDEX

End Sub

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Jewel

First, you don't need to convert a string into a string to add items to the list box. For example, this should work:

Using Convert won't hurt, it just makes the code less clear.

I think this is the step giving you problems:

Here you're using SelectedItems when you probably want something like SelectedItems(INDEX). Note also that you should not increment the looping variable in a For loop because the loop does it for you.

So try something like this:

Let me know if that works.

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Rod Stephens, Microsoft MVP

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Thanks for your help. I'm getting an error on the section of code below

name.displayLabel.Text = SELECTED_NAMES

saying that my variable is used before it is assigned a value

This little snippet of code is really giving me a hard time! Thanks for your help!

Jewel

Sorry, I spelled it SELECTED_NAME in one place and SELECTED_NAMES in another. Try changing them all to SELECTED_NAMES.

I'm also not sure why you have name.displayLabel. I think you can just say displayLabel.

If that doesn't work, post your current code again and I'll take another look.

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Rod

Rod Stephens, Microsoft MVP

Essential Algorithms: A Practical Approach to Computer Algorithms

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Thanks for your help!