In answer to my own question, I'm just going to get the index of the select
item and then grab those values from the dataset table using the index and
col names. If there's a much easier way LMK, but this shouldn't be too hard!
MattB wrote:
> In my asp.net (vb) application I'm displaying data from a table
> in a dataset in a listbox. The data displays as I want using the
> .DataTextField property, but when the user makes a selection I need
> to return more than one value in a row. This is because the data has
> a compound key on three fields (department, category, and item).
> I tried setting the DataValueField to "department" & "category" &
> "item" but that errored out because:
> DataBinder.Eval: 'System.Data.DataRowView' does not contain a
> property with the name departmentcategoryitem
>
> So I guess I need to figure out how to return the values of three
> fields OR create a view that concatenates those fields into one that
> I could parse out again later. BUT, I don't know how to create a view
> in this context (ado.net/vb.net). Can someone tell me which way might
> work better (or at all) and some tips on making it work? TIA!
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