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I am having issues with my collection now that i have it mostly together. I am binding it to a listbox, but instead of the box information I want it to show, it is simply showing the object type. I have tried overriding it with the following.
Public Overrides Function toString() As String
Dim result As System.Text.Str ingBuilder
Dim item As Box
For Each item In Me.List
result.Append(i tem.BoxType.ToS tring)
Next
End Function
I found something similar to that on the net and modified it for how I think it should work. But its still not working...any ideas?
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--Eric Cathell, MCSA
Nov 21 '05 #1
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ECathell wrote:
I am having issues with my collection now that i have it mostly together. I am binding it to a listbox, but instead of the box
information I want it to show, it is simply showing the object type. I
have tried overriding it with the following.

Public Overrides Function toString() As String
Dim result As System.Text.Str ingBuilder
Dim item As Box
For Each item In Me.List
result.Append(i tem.BoxType.ToS tring)
Next
End Function
I found something similar to that on the net and modified it for how

I think it should work. But its still not working...any ideas?

Umm... Return result.ToString ?

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Larry Lard
Replies to group please

Nov 21 '05 #2
I figured it out. I think it may have been a pretty silly error. I was trying to override the toString function in my collection class to return the name of the object. I had to Override the toString Method in my COLLECTED class to return the information I wanted displayed.

Thanks to dave Hayden at http://codebetter.com/blogs/david.ha.../24/55984.aspx for knocking me upside my head.

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--Eric Cathell, MCSA
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I am having issues with my collection now that i have it mostly together. I am binding it to a listbox, but instead of the box information I want it to show, it is simply showing the object type. I have tried overriding it with the following.
Public Overrides Function toString() As String
Dim result As System.Text.Str ingBuilder
Dim item As Box
For Each item In Me.List
result.Append(i tem.BoxType.ToS tring)
Next
End Function
I found something similar to that on the net and modified it for how I think it should work. But its still not working...any ideas?
--
--Eric Cathell, MCSA
Nov 21 '05 #3

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