>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I'm working with my late colleague's form and it uses AddItem method to add items to the listbox. My question is: what would be the simplest way to check, if the item is already in the list?
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>>Here is the line of code:
>>this.List1.AddItem(laResults[1, 1] + ' ' + laResults[1, 2])
>>I actually want to be able to check for the code (first portion) in the list.
>>
>>Should I loop through all list content or there is a better way?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>There is a way w/o looping. Set the value and check listindex. However since listboxes can't add much items with this approach you might not need to gain such a performance. Its slowness would be masked with few elements anyway.
>Cetin
Thanks, Cetin. You're right, usually these lists are very short, so I decided to write this simple code using looping.
Thanks again.
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