How to populate a listbox with 2 columns from database

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Only 1 column is displaying in my listbox

I want to display FistName and LastName from my database but only FistName is showing.

What I have tried:

VB

'Populate the ListBox with personnelName from personnel '
      Try
          connection = New OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=C:\Users\Nikko Jaze Fabellon\Documents\ASRASIM.accdb")
          connection.Open()
          ds = New DataSet
          tables = ds.Tables
          dataAdapter = New OleDbDataAdapter("SELECT [FirstName],[LastName] from [Personnel] where [Status] = 'Activated' ", connection)
          dataAdapter.Fill(ds, "Personnel")
          Dim view1 As New DataView(tables(0))
          With personnelList
              .DataSource = ds.Tables("Personnel")
              .DisplayMember = "FistName"
              .ValueMember = "ID"
              .SelectedIndex = 0
          End With

          connection.Close()

      Catch ex As Exception
          MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
      End Try

Posted 14-Feb-18 5:26am

WinterPrison

Updated 14-Feb-18 7:35am

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2018-02-14T07:29:00

Try:

VB.NET

dataAdapter = New OleDbDataAdapter("SELECT [FirstName] + ' ' + [LastName] AS FullName from [Personnel] where [Status] = 'Activated' ", connection)
dataAdapter.Fill(ds, "Personnel")
Dim view1 As New DataView(tables(0))
With personnelList
    .DataSource = ds.Tables("Personnel")
    .DisplayMember = "FullName"

RickZeeland · Answer 2 · 2018-02-14T07:35:00

Solution 3

Here is a CodeProject example: Multi Column List Box in C#[^]
But a DataGridView is probably more suitable for your purposes, it is also a lot more complex sadly, here is an interesting article about it: A Detailed Data Binding Tutorial[^]

Posted 14-Feb-18 7:35am

RickZeeland