Putting a timestamp on a listbox item (vb.net)

mrobertson · 08-01-2005, 10:05 AM

Is there anyway to put a timestamp on a listbox item and if so how would this be done?

deiussum · 08-01-2005, 10:14 AM

If you are using the report view, just add a column for date/time and fill it with the contents of DateTime.Now...

mrobertson · 08-01-2005, 10:18 AM

How do I set up a listbox for report view?

deiussum · 08-01-2005, 10:48 AM

You go to your little form designer, select your list box, find the view property and set that to Details.

You may want to learn how to navigate the MSDN documentation for .Net. There's a lot of good stuff there, and reading about the various methods and properties for individual classes can really help answer the simple questions.

Edit: Actually, it's the ListView class that has the different views. Switch your ListBox to a ListView and you should have the View property...

mrobertson · 08-01-2005, 11:56 AM

There is not a view property for the listbox. Is there another way to set it up?

deiussum · 08-01-2005, 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mrobertson
There is not a view property for the listbox. Is there another way to set it up?

There is for the ListView which has many of the same things you are probably using in the ListBox.

If you absolutely cannot use the ListView instead, well, just append/prepend the text of the DateTime string to the ListBox items, formatted any way you want.

mrobertson · 08-01-2005, 12:04 PM

The listbox does not have an append or prepend property either.

deiussum · 08-01-2005, 12:13 PM

No, no, no. Each item of the listbox is represented by a string... append or prepend the date to that string.

Code:

Dim s As String

s = "Name of Item"
s = s + " (" + DateTime.Now + ")"

'Add item to ListBox using s as the name of the item...

mrobertson · 08-01-2005, 12:23 PM

Ok! I understand what do do now and I got it working great. Is there anyway that could explain my other thread a bit better. I still do not understand how to define the strings that are being compared. I have a string that will be going into a text file that needs to compared with everystring already in the text file to see if they match.