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ListBox SelectedItems.CopyTo

I'm trying to use this function to copy all of the selected items in my list box to an array to be used for other purposes. I get an error "Object cannot be stored in an array of this type" with the following code. However when I look at the definition of the CopyTo function, it says that it take 2 arguments (System.Array and Index).

Any ideas on how I can do this?

Dim Groups(lstGroupCode.SelectedItems.Count) As System.Array
lstGroupCode.SelectedItems.CopyTo(Groups, 0)

Brian Crowe

Dim Groups(lstGroupCode.SelectedItems.Count) As Object
lstGroupCode.SelectedItems.CopyTo(Groups, 0)

taxgurl

ASKER

thanks, I tried that as well, but that returns an object of type dataRowView..... I want an array.

Brian Crowe

what is the datasource for your listbox?

taxgurl

ASKER

it's a dataSet

vadim63

Did you try:

Dim Groups(lstGroupCode.SelectedItems.Count) As String
lstGroupCode.SelectedItems.CopyTo(Groups, 0)

taxgurl

ASKER

Yep, tried that also - I don't remember the result off hand, but I got an error on that as well.

vadim63

It's very strange, b'cause this code works fine:

Dim arr(ListBox1.SelectedItems.Count) As String
ListBox1.SelectedItems.CopyTo(arr, 0)
Dim str As String = ""
For i As Integer = 0 To UBound(arr) - 1
str += arr(i) & vbCrLf
Next
MsgBox(str)

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taxgurl

ASKER

Thank you very much BriCrowe, this solution works perfect. And thanks so much for your very quick responses (which is why I valued this question so high).