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ListBox datasource works fine in Win Forms, but Broken in Web Forms

Hi all.

I have the following problem

I have a listbox which is bound to a datatable with two columns(about 25 rows).

In C# win forms, it works just like it says it should, but if i move the code to Web Forms, the listbox comes back empty. I have checked, and the table definitely has data.

I'm new to Web Forms though, so its entirely possible I'm missing something obvious.

Any hints?

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Win Forms Code
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try {
this.dirsearchGroups.SearchRoot = de;
SearchResultCollection rs1 = this.dirsearchGroups.FindAll();
dtGroups = new DataTable("groups");
dtGroups.Columns.Add("group", System.Type.GetType("System.String"));
dtGroups.Columns.Add("path", System.Type.GetType("System.String"));

foreach(SearchResult rs in rs1) {
dtGroups.Rows.Add(new object[2] {rs.Properties["cn"][0].ToString(), rs.Path.ToString()});
}
this.lbGroups.DataSource = dtGroups;
this.lbGroups.DisplayMember = "group";
this.lbGroups.ValueMember = "path";
snip--->

**WORKS LIKE A CHARM**

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Web Forms
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dirsearchGroups.SearchRoot = root;
dirsearchGroups.Filter = "(&(objectClass=group)(cn=*))";
dirsearchGroups.PropertiesToLoad.Add("cn");

SearchResultCollection rs1 = this.dirsearchGroups.FindAll();
dtGroups = new DataTable("groups");
dtGroups.Columns.Add("group", System.Type.GetType("System.String"));
dtGroups.Columns.Add("path", System.Type.GetType("System.String"));

foreach(SearchResult rs in rs1) {
dtGroups.Rows.Add(new object[2] {rs.Properties["cn"][0].ToString(), rs.Path.ToString()});
}
Response.Write("dtGroups count " + dtGroups.Rows.Count.ToString());

this.lbGroups.DataSource = dtGroups;
this.lbGroups.DataTextField = "group";
this.lbGroups.DataValueField = "path";

**THIS RETURNS AND EMPTY "ListBox" (select box on the HTML rendered form)

Can somebody clue me in please? I'm sure its something I'm not doing..

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Here is how I did it

I'm using a DirectoryResults collection, so I just iterated through that collection and added the items.

foreach(SearchResult rs in rsCollection) {
lbGroups.Items.Add(new ListItem(rs.Properties["cn"][0].ToString(), rs.Path.ToString());
}

worked like a charm.