Hi

Could anybody give me some 'best practice' guidelines when adding items to listboxes?

I need to add a series of values to a listbox , say employee names and the employees id

The Employee name would be the displaymember and the employee Id would be the valuemember.

In the listbox I would like to display the name but behind the scenes store the id so that when the user clicks on an employee in the list box I can work out what the ID is for the selected employee.

I'm not using a datatable or an array at the moment, but need to add a series of values from an external com component.

so my code looks something like this ;

EmployeesClass oEmps = new EmployeesClass();

int lnRetValue = 0

lnRetValue = oEmps.first()
while(lnRetValue != -2)
{
    cEmpName = oEmps.GetEmpName()
    iEmpID   = oEmps.GetEmpId()
    
    * need to populate the list box items here...

    lnRetValue = oEmps.next() - this will return -2 when we hit the last record.

}

Anybody got any pointers for me?