Imports System.Windows.Forms
Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()
InitializeComboBox()
InitializeTextBox()
Me.Label1 = New System.Windows.Forms.Label
Me.SuspendLayout()
Me.Label1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(8, 24)
Me.Label1.Name = "Label1"
Me.Label1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(120, 32)
Me.Label1.TabIndex = 1
Me.Label1.Text = "Use drop-down to choose a name:"
Me.Label1.TextAlign = System.Drawing.ContentAlignment.MiddleRight
Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(292, 266)
Me.Controls.Add(Me.Label1)
Me.Name = "Form1"
Me.Text = "Form1"
Me.ResumeLayout(False)
End Sub
Shared Sub Main()
Application.Run(New Form1)
End Sub
Friend WithEvents Label1 As System.Windows.Forms.Label
' Declare and initialize the text box.
' This text box text will be update programmatically. The user is not
' allowed to update it, so the ReadOnly property is set to true.
Friend WithEvents TextBox1 As System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
Private Sub InitializeTextBox()
Me.TextBox1 = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
Me.TextBox1.ScrollBars = ScrollBars.Vertical
Me.TextBox1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(64, 128)
Me.TextBox1.Multiline = True
Me.TextBox1.Name = "TextBox1"
Me.TextBox1.ReadOnly = True
Me.TextBox1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(184, 120)
Me.TextBox1.TabIndex = 4
Me.TextBox1.Text = "Employee and Number of Awards:"
Me.Controls.Add(Me.TextBox1)
End Sub
' Declare comboBox1 as a ComboBox.
Friend WithEvents ComboBox1 As System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
' This method initializes the combo box, adding a large string
' array but limiting the drop-down size to six rows so the combo box
' doesn't cover other controls when it expands.
Private Sub InitializeComboBox()
Me.ComboBox1 = New System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
Dim employees() As String = New String() {"Hamilton, David", _
"Hensien, Kari", "Hammond, Maria", "Harris, Keith", _
"Henshaw, Jeff D.", "Hanson, Mark", "Harnpadoungsataya, Sariya", _
"Harrington, Mark", "Harris, Keith", "Hartwig, Doris", _
"Harui, Roger", "Hassall, Mark", "Hasselberg, Jonas", _
"Harnpadoungsataya, Sariya", "Henshaw, Jeff D.", "Henshaw, Jeff D.", _
"Hensien, Kari", "Harris, Keith", "Henshaw, Jeff D.", _
"Hensien, Kari", "Hasselberg, Jonas", "Harrington, Mark", _
"Hedlund, Magnus", "Hay, Jeff", "Heidepriem, Brandon D."}
ComboBox1.Items.AddRange(employees)
Me.ComboBox1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(136, 32)
Me.ComboBox1.IntegralHeight = False
Me.ComboBox1.MaxDropDownItems = 5
Me.ComboBox1.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.DropDown
Me.ComboBox1.Name = "ComboBox1"
Me.ComboBox1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(136, 81)
Me.ComboBox1.TabIndex = 0
Me.Controls.Add(Me.ComboBox1)
End Sub
' This method is called when the user changes his or her selection.
' It searches for all occurrences of the selected employee's
' name in the Items array and adds the employee's name and
' the number of occurrences to TextBox1.Text.
' CAUTION This code exposes a known bug: If the index passed to the
' FindStringExact(searchString, index) method is the last index
' of the array, the code throws an exception.
Private Sub ComboBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ComboBox1.SelectedIndexChanged
Dim comboBox As comboBox = CType(sender, comboBox)
' Save the selected employee's name, because we will remove
' the employee's name from the list.
Dim selectedEmployee = CType(ComboBox1.SelectedItem, String)
Dim count As Integer = 0
Dim resultIndex As Integer = -1
' Call the FindStringExact method to find the first
' occurrence in the list.
resultIndex = ComboBox1.FindStringExact(ComboBox1.SelectedItem)
' Remove the name as it is found, and increment the found count.
' Then call the FindStringExact method again, passing in the index of the
' current found item so the search starts there instead of
' at the beginning of the list.
While (resultIndex <> -1)
ComboBox1.Items.RemoveAt(resultIndex)
count += 1
resultIndex = ComboBox1.FindStringExact _
(selectedEmployee, resultIndex)
End While
' Update the text in Textbox1.
TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & Microsoft.VisualBasic.vbCrLf _
& selectedEmployee & ": " & count
End Sub
End Class