Adding a “Tag” property to a ListBox's items, like a TreeView's Nodes?

Question

I\'m making a Windows Form project that will search for files in the specified folders in my spare time. So far, I\'ve got my TreeView that displays folders just like in the Win

Answer 1

I would make a custom class that represents the items in the list. You have properties (not fields!) that represent the value to be displayed, and selected value you can enter that property name in the listbox's .DisplayMember and .ValueMember properties. Whatever is returned by DisplayMember will be displayed as the item's text, and whatever is returned by .ValueMember will be what .SelectedValue returns. You will be able to directly access .SelectedItem to get the exact item that was selected. This way you can store anything you want as the items. If you don't specify a .DisplayMember then the listbox will use the .ToString function on the item.