Once you have that property set, you can retrieve the values of what was selected in code behind by looping through the listbox.
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To allow users to select multiple values from a listbox, you need to set two properties, such as rows and SelectionMode. The value for rows can be any integer and for Selectionmode, it will be Multiple. To retrieve the all the values selected by the user, we need to make use of the properties such as Items.Count. And the property, selected will tell us whether the item have been selected or not. See the following example.
Listbox Web Server Control -
Sub mySub(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
If lstStates.SelectedIndex > - 1
lblMsg.Text=""
Dim ctr as Integer
For ctr=0 to lstStates.Items.Count()-1
If lstStates.items(ctr).selec
lblMsg.Text += " You selected " & lstStates.items(ctr).Text & ""
end if
Next
End If
End Sub
ASP.NET Listbox Server Control
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by: arhamePosted on 2009-04-14 at 11:47:00ID: 24141240
There is a property on the listbox you can set the "Selection Mode" to multiple.