How to Make TextBox as Search Option Just Like Google in Desktop Application + VB.net

It is relatively simple if you use LinQ. If you have a List of Person objects and you wish to find the people with the phrase 'an' in their name you would do something like this

class Person
   {
       public string Name { get; set; }
       public int Age { get; set; }
   }

List<Person> SelectItems(List<Person> people, string searchText)
       {
           return (from person in people where person.Name.Contains(searchText) select person).ToList();
       }

If you are trying to get the results from a database, then you need to use a LIKE clause in the query like this

SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT Name, Age FROM People WHERE Name LIKE @SearchString", con);
                cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@SearchString", "%" + searchString + "%");

Hope this helps

Oops, just saw your question was about VB, but you should get the picture.

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