Hyperlinks inside ListBox - vb.net

Question

Hello, can someone help me with my project that I'm working on? Anything is appreciated!
So, what do I need? Its simple, I need link and name bars to actually create a hyperlink into the LSB listbox. Can someone please help me??
PS: Could you please keep it simple for me, I just started with this language.

Answer 1

OK This isn't as simple as I would like it to be for you but here goes. I'll try to explain as I go along
OK all the bits code below goes in your Form1 class as one lump - without my explanations that is. What I've done here is create a new class called Hyperlink
It has a couple of properties called Name and Link and a constructor called New
Class HyperLink
Private friendlyName As String
Private link As String
Public Property Name As String
Get
Return friendlyName
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
friendlyName = value
End Set
End Property
Public Property URL As String
Get
Return link
End Get
Set(value As String)
link = URL
End Set
End Property
Public Sub New(nm As String, ln As String)
friendlyName = nm
link = ln
End Sub
End Class
Here I'm creating list called linkList - this will hold the list of hyperlinks - I'm doing this so that later on the listbox will be set to use this as it's source of list items
Dim linklist As New List(Of HyperLink)
This sub called addLinkToListbox actually does several things. The important bits are that it tells you program to temporarily stop responding when the index of the listbox changes(which happens even when you're changing the contents off the listbox)
Then it adds a new **hyperlink* to the list of hyperlinks taking data from the link textbox and the name textbox.
To actually refresh the data shown in the textbox, I have to change the listbox datasource to nothing and then back to to the linkList
The next two lines tell the listbox to display the Name property inn the list box and when the item is actually clicked, to return the URL property.
Finally, I tell the program to start responding again when the index of the listbox index changes.
Private Sub addLinkToListbox(linkName As String, linkURL As String)
RemoveHandler ListBox1.SelectedIndexChanged, AddressOf ListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged
linklist.Add(New HyperLink(linkName, linkURL))
ListBox1.DataSource = Nothing
ListBox1.DataSource = linklist
ListBox1.DisplayMember = "Name"
ListBox1.ValueMember = "URL"
AddHandler ListBox1.SelectedIndexChanged, AddressOf ListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged
End Sub
These last two bits of code are hopefully self-explanatory
Private Sub btnAddLink_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnAddLink.Click
addLinkToListbox(txtName.Text, txtLink.Text)
End Sub
Private Sub ListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles ListBox1.SelectedIndexChanged
MessageBox.Show(ListBox1.SelectedValue.ToString)
End Sub