Here I will explain how to move items from one listbox to another listbox in asp.net using C#
Description
In one application I got requirement like work with listbox control in asp.net. First we will learn what listbox control purpose is and how we can use in our application.
The ListBox control is used to display a list of items to the user that the user can select by clicking. A ListBox control can provide single or multiple selections using the SelectionMode property. This tutorial shows you how to move items from one listbox to other listbox and we can move items by using single selection of item or multiple selection of items.
Design your aspx page like this
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>Listbox Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<table align="center">
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="3">
<b>ListBox Sample</b>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:ListBox ID="ListBox1" runat="server" Height="169px" Width="121px" SelectionMode="Multiple">
<asp:listitem Value="0">Asp.Net</asp:listitem>
<asp:listitem Value="1">C#.Net</asp:listitem>
<asp:listitem Value="2">VB.Net</asp:listitem>
<asp:listitem Value="3">JavaScript</asp:listitem>
<asp:listitem Value="4">Ajax</asp:listitem>
</asp:ListBox>
</td>
<td>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:Button ID="btn1" runat="server" Text=">" Width="45px" onclick="btn1_Click" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:Button ID="btn2" runat="server" Text=">>" Width="45px" onclick="btn2_Click" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:Button ID="btn3" runat="server" Text="<" Width="45px" onclick="btn3_Click" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:Button ID="btn4" runat="server" Text="<<" Width="45px" onclick="btn4_Click" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<asp:ListBox ID="ListBox2" runat="server" Height="169px" Width="121px" SelectionMode="Multiple">
<asp:listitem Value="0">SQl Server</asp:listitem>
<asp:listitem Value="1">Sharesoint</asp:listitem>
<asp:listitem Value="2">Jquery</asp:listitem>
</asp:ListBox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">
<asp:Label ID="lbltxt" runat="server" ForeColor="Red"></asp:Label>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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In our asp.net application we are using arraylists to get arraylist in code behind we need to system.Colelction namespace in our application
using System.Collections;
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System.Collections namespace contains interfaces and classes that define various collections of objects, such as lists, queues, bit arrays, hash tables and dictionaries.
Codebehind write the following code
ArrayList arraylist1 = new ArrayList();
ArrayList arraylist2 = new ArrayList();
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
/// <summary>
/// btn1_Click event is used to move single or multiple items from Listbox1 to Listbox2
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sender"></param>
/// <param name="e"></param>
protected void btn1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
lbltxt.Visible = false;
if (ListBox1.SelectedIndex >= 0)
{
for (int i = 0; i < ListBox1.Items.Count; i++)
{
if (ListBox1.Items[i].Selected)
{
if (!arraylist1.Contains(ListBox1.Items[i]))
{
arraylist1.Add(ListBox1.Items[i]);
}
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < arraylist1.Count; i++)
{
if (!ListBox2.Items.Contains(((ListItem)arraylist1[i])))
{
ListBox2.Items.Add(((ListItem)arraylist1[i]));
}
ListBox1.Items.Remove(((ListItem)arraylist1[i]));
}
ListBox2.SelectedIndex = -1;
}
else
{
lbltxt.Visible = true;
lbltxt.Text = "Please select atleast one in Listbox1 to move";
}
}
/// <summary>
/// btn2_Click event is used to move all items from Listbox1 to Listbox2
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sender"></param>
/// <param name="e"></param>
protected void btn2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
lbltxt.Visible = false;
while(ListBox1.Items.Count!=0)
{
for(int i=0;i<ListBox1.Items.Count;i++)
{
ListBox2.Items.Add(ListBox1.Items[i]);
ListBox1.Items.Remove(ListBox1.Items[i]);
}
}
}
/// <summary>
/// btn3_Click event is used to move single or multiple items from Listbox2 to Listbox1
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sender"></param>
/// <param name="e"></param>
protected void btn3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
lbltxt.Visible = false;
if (ListBox2.SelectedIndex >= 0)
{
for (int i = 0; i < ListBox2.Items.Count; i++)
{
if (ListBox2.Items[i].Selected)
{
if (!arraylist2.Contains(ListBox2.Items[i]))
{
arraylist2.Add(ListBox2.Items[i]);
}
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < arraylist2.Count; i++)
{
if (!ListBox1.Items.Contains(((ListItem)arraylist2[i])))
{
ListBox1.Items.Add(((ListItem)arraylist2[i]));
}
ListBox2.Items.Remove(((ListItem)arraylist2[i]));
}
ListBox1.SelectedIndex = -1;
}
else
{
lbltxt.Visible = true;
lbltxt.Text = "Please select atleast one in Listbox2 to move";
}
}
/// <summary>
/// btn4_Click event is used to move all items form Listbox2 to Listbox1
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sender"></param>
/// <param name="e"></param>
protected void btn4_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
lbltxt.Visible = false;
while (ListBox2.Items.Count != 0)
{
for (int i = 0; i < ListBox2.Items.Count; i++)
{
ListBox1.Items.Add(ListBox2.Items[i]);
ListBox2.Items.Remove(ListBox2.Items[i]);
}
}
}
}
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Demo
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Download sample code attached
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10 comments :
Please Elobrate All Things in Easy Way
How to store the Listbox2 items in the SQL table ?
Thanks suresh its helped me
Thanks dude for ur documentation
i got nice help from this project
nice tutorial.. but postback on each button click bothers.. how to prevent pagerefresh/postback.
thanks in advance.
why ListBox1.SelectedIndex = -1; is used
http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/570319/ASP-NET-Move-Items-from-One-Listbox-to-Another-Lis
same code same example
@vinod...
Someone copy and pasted my code in codeproject check the date of articles written.