In this article we will bind records from database to a listbox.
Here we can bind only one column from the database. For that we have to mention
the field name in DataTextField property of the listbox.
Table structure
Program
Default.aspx code
<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="_Default" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled
Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
</div>
<asp:ListBox ID="ListBox1" runat="server" Height="242px"
SelectionMode="Multiple" Width="337px"></asp:ListBox>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Default.aspx.vb code
Imports
System.Data
Imports
System.Data.SqlClient
Partial Class _Default
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Dim strConnString As String =
System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings.Item("ConnectionString").ToString()
Dim con As New SqlConnection(strConnString)
Dim str As String
Dim com As
SqlCommand
Dim sqlda As
SqlDataAdapter
Dim ds As
DataSet
Protected Sub
Page_Load(ByVal sender
As Object, ByVal
e As System.EventArgs)
Handles Me.Load
con.Open()
str =
"select * from employee"
com =
New SqlCommand(str, con)
sqlda =
New SqlDataAdapter(com)
ds =
New DataSet
sqlda.Fill(ds, "employee")
ListBox1.DataValueField = "empid"
ListBox1.DataTextField = "empname"
ListBox1.DataSource = ds
ListBox1.DataMember = "employee"
ListBox1.DataBind()
con.Close()
End Sub
End Class
Output
Here
we have field name as
empname
in
DataTextField property of the listbox.
Thanks for reading