How to retrieve a list of items from listbox in C#

Yes, it is possible. But you have to have some sort of a delimiter like a dash (-) so that your program will know what the name is, and what the email address is when you read it.

For example:

string student = "Mike Gold";
string email = "[email protected]";

string record = student + " - " + email;
//lbxMpgroup.Items.Add(student + " - " + email); // value will be "Mike [email protected]"

string[] temparray = record.Split('-');
// temparray[0] will contain "Mike Gold" while temparray[1] will contain "[email protected]"

Also, please have a look for ListView control for an alternative.

Hi Mr Jan Montano,

Thanks for sharing your code, my program can run successfully. =)
Now, i have to make my program more user friendly.

Do u have any idea how i could populate a listbox with more than 2 items?

for my current listbox, it only display the student email.
is it possible that i display both the student email and student name, yet add only the email to the studentArray?

if (!IsPostBack)

{  object[] student =;

     foreach (string s in student)

     {

          lbxStudent.Items.Add(s);   

    }

}

You could try using the for loop instead so that we could use the counter variable both for the listbox and your array.

string[] studentArray = new string[lbxMpgroup.Items.Count];

for (int i = 0; i < lbxMpgroup.Items.Count; i++)
{

studentArray[i] = lbxMpgroup.Items[i].ToString();
lblStudent.Text += studentArray[i] + "
";

}