ASP.NET by Example

Working with the Items Collection

The Items collection is a special property of type ListItemCollection in the System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace and is shared by all ASP.NET list controls. This class does the grunt work in managing the list items for each list control. Table 6.2 shows a summary of the properties and methods for the ListItemCollection class. Please take a moment to review them before we move on with an example of manipulating the items in a list control programmatically.

Table 6.2. Summary of the Properties and Methods of the ListItemCollection Class

Name	Item	Description
Add	Method	Overloaded. Adds a new item to the collection by supplying either a ListItem object or string value
All	Property	Gets an array of type ListItem