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Looping thru a List to find the first and second items

I have a list like this:
List<CustomerQ.Customer> items = customerQ.Execute();
cbxCName.DataSource = items;
cbxCName.DataBind();

I want to loop thru that List and assign the first and second items to the first and second item of that checkbox cbxCName:

cbxCName.Items[0].Text = "first item column of Items"
cbxCName.Items[0].Value = "second item column of Items"

burakiewicz

are you trying to bind a property to the text and a property to the value like this
List items = customerQ.Execute();
cbxCName.DataSource = items;
cbxCName.DataTextField="ItemName"
cbxCName.DataValueField="ItemId"
cbxCName.DataBind();

Camillia

ASKER

oh, let me see.

Camillia

ASKER

no, backto my orig question...how can I get the Items's first and second columns?
cbxCName.DataTextField="ItemName"
cbxCName.DataValueField="ItemId"

--what is IteName?what is ItemId?

*** Orig code has an itemdatabound like below. I want to replace that item databound code and do it the binding all in one. I want to remove the ItemDataBound.

e.Item.Text = ((CustomerQ.Customer)e.Item.DataItem).LastName.ToString();
e.Item.Value = ((CustomerQ.Customer)e.Item.DataItem).Id.ToString();

Camillia

ASKER

I can do :
items[0].id and items[0].lastname

but can I do this in one line or do i need to loop?

Camillia

ASKER

I tried this but I dont see anything in my combo box:

List items = customerQuery.Execute();
cbxCName.DataSource = items;
cbxCName.DataTextField = items[0].LastName.ToString();
cbxCName.DataValueField = items[0].Id.ToString();
cbxCName.DataBind();

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Camillia

ASKER

let me try that but this also worked:
int i;
for (i = 0; i< items.Count - 1; i++)
{
cbxCName.Items[i].Text = items[i].LastName.ToString();
cbxCName.Items[i].Value = items[i].Id.ToString();
}

Camillia

ASKER

yes, your method is much better.Thanks