Hi,
      I have a pretty annoying problem with one of my pages listboxes. I want to take the text of the selected item in this particular multi select listbox and put the selected accounts in an arraylist. However when I submit the form, the selected index is correct sometimes and sometimes it comes to the first item even if I have something else selected. I read somewhere this could happen if I was binding it twice, but I am only binding it once, in an event handler of a Drop down control, I am not binding it in the page load and I tried using Listbox.SelectedIndex = -1 but it still does not work, oh and the EnableViewstate is also set to True for the Listbox. Its very frustrating as I cannot seem to find a way to get around it, could someone please tell me what I need to do to get my correct selected item in the listbox???

here is the code

// The event handler that populates the Listbox LbAccounts

protected void DDLSignatories_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        GetAccounts();
    }


 protected void GetAccounts()
    {

        System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection cnn = new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection(cnnString);
        SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("sp_GetEntityAcctstoRemoveSigs", cnn);
        cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@EID", DDLEntities.SelectedValue);
        cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@SigID", DDLSignatories.SelectedValue);
        cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
        SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
        DataTable Accounts = new DataTable();
        da.Fill(Accounts);
        if (Accounts.Rows.Count == 0)
        {
            Acct.Style["display"] = "none";
            lblNoAccounts.Visible = true;
            return;
        }
        lblNoAccounts.Visible = false;
        Acct.Style["display"] = "block";
        LbAccounts.DataSource = Accounts;
        LbAccounts.DataTextField = "Name";
        LbAccounts.DataValueField = "Type_ID";
        LbAccounts.DataBind();
        LbAccounts.SelectedIndex = -1;
    }

// and Finally the Submit button

 protected void BtnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection cnn = new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection(cnnString);

        ArrayList accounts = new ArrayList();
        foreach (ListItem li in LbAccounts.Items)
        {
           if (li.Selected == true)
            {
                accounts.Add(li);
            }
        }
}

 The li.selected always returns the first item in the listbox?!? If someone can tellme of a way to get around this and get the correct selected accounts, It will be very much appreciated!! Thanx in advance!!

I'm have the same problem. Did you manage to solve it?

okey I once had this problem and the reason was that I had two iteams with the same value.. check that :)

Nothing is impossible. The impossible only takes longer. "Digital Fortress, Dan Brown"

:) Ah, that did it.

Hmm... I was expecting the ListBox control to work by the index in the list rather than the item value.

Thanks loads

Actually no, come to think of it the page will only send back the value from the ListItem so of course it wouldn't know which one was selected. Doh! Oops