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user8929822
user8929822

Reputation: 323

Adding text files from local folder to checkedListbox in C# not triggering anything

I have created a checkedListbox in C# using visual studio. I want to populate the checkedListbox with .txt files located on my hard drive. I found a way to do that following the post below.However, when I run my program, the checkedListbox is empty. Any idea why that's happening?

How to list text files in the selected directory in a listbox?

My Code:

private void checkedListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        DirectoryInfo dinfo = new DirectoryInfo(@"C:\Users\John\Desktop\Test1\Test1\Test1\Data");
        FileInfo[] Files = dinfo.GetFiles("*.txt");
        foreach (FileInfo file in Files)
        {
            checkedListBox1.Items.Add(file.Name);
        }
    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 168

Answers (1)

CodingYoshi
CodingYoshi

Reputation: 27019

Your code should work but you need to make one small change. Right now you have the code within checkedListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged but initially there is nothing in your CheckedListBox so the SelectedIndexChanged event will not be triggered and thus your code will not be executed; consequently, nothing will show in your CheckedListBox. Even if you had an item in there, why would you want to do this every time the user checks/unchecks one of the items.

Either double click your form and put that code within Xxx_Load (where Xxx is the name of the form) event handler or put the code within the constructor after InitializeComponent.

Or put the code anywhere else where it makes sense.

Upvotes: 2

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