A searchfunction in my C# program

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Hello guys, for about one year ago i made a program to log drops from a specific monster on a game called runescape.. In this program i had a search function that could search for an item and select all of the found items.. This is how it looks like:

http://gyazo.com/54442ad07abc0087ac211c4ce77afc30.gif[^]

I would like to do the same search function in another program that i'm working on for another monster.. But i can't remember how to do it, can anyone help please?

Posted 8-Mar-14 11:47am

Gramas19

Updated 8-Mar-14 15:10pm

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Andreas Gieriet 8-Mar-14 19:32pm

Don't you have the sources of that program anymore?
Andi

Gramas19 8-Mar-14 21:10pm

Nope, i've lost it :/

ZurdoDev 8-Mar-14 20:34pm

Help what?

Gramas19 8-Mar-14 21:10pm

How to do that search function

ZurdoDev 8-Mar-14 21:38pm

This does not make any sense at all. If I told you to send me code so I could have a search function, what would you do?

Gramas19 9-Mar-14 8:28am

Well.. I don't know actually.. But I want this function to be like this: First i've added some items to the listbox and then i want to search for a specific item by typing it in the textbox in the left corner. When i press the search button I guess it'll loop through the listbox and select everything that contains whatever i wrote in the textbox.

Andreas Gieriet 9-Mar-14 9:08am

Show us your code. Without any code and exact description what goes wrong, the discussion is useless.
"We cannot read your wishes from you eyes." If you want to get any useful help, allow it to happen!
Cheers
Amdi

ZurdoDev 9-Mar-14 12:59pm

OK. Thank you. That is much more clear. But you have pseudo coded it correctly. Where exactly are you stuck?

Gramas19 10-Mar-14 12:59pm

what I can't remember is how to make the loop to go through my list so all of my items become selected.. It should be a loop that goes thorugh the listbox and select whatever in the list that contains what i wrote in the textbox

ZurdoDev 10-Mar-14 13:10pm

for (Int32 i = 0; i < list.Items.Count; i++)
{
if (list.Items[i].ToString()=="value")
{

}
}

It's really simple.

Gramas19 10-Mar-14 14:16pm

Thank you very much!! =)

ZurdoDev 10-Mar-14 14:20pm

Sure. Glad that helps. I'll post as solution.

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Solution 1

If it is C#, you can use ILSpy[^] to reverse-engineer your assembly.
Cheers
Andi

Posted 8-Mar-14 15:20pm

Andreas Gieriet

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agent_kruger 9-Mar-14 5:14am

+5 vote, a good link sir but does this thing really works ?

Gramas19 9-Mar-14 8:25am

I tried to download it but the only thing i can do is open source codes etc but I can't find what i'm looking for :/

agent_kruger 9-Mar-14 8:27am

sir, is it generated code through the exe.

Andreas Gieriet 9-Mar-14 9:00am

What are you looking for? If you load the executable into the ILSpy, it will provide the C# code as much as it can guess it, assuming it was coded in C# in the first place. The code you see is most likely not compilable, but still gives you a hit how you implamented it in the first place.
If that was your code I assume it triggers some memory - if it's not your code, ask the author of the code.
Cheers
Andi
PS: Hey, you tell us you lost your source code. Having no backup of crucial data bares some cost. Be glad having at least the executable and the ILSpy. If this does not help, write it from scratch - it cannot be so difficult if you did it already once. Only the third version of a piece of software is the mature one ;-) I hope you learn now (the hard way) to backup your data rigidly.

agent_kruger 9-Mar-14 12:28pm

sir, this is not my question but i am glad that you answered it. Thank you sir, once again.

Andreas Gieriet 9-Mar-14 13:30pm

To what question do you refer?
Andi

agent_kruger 10-Mar-14 4:37am

sir, i just asked "Will it generate code through exe" and i got answered that "it will generate as far as possible".

Andreas Gieriet 10-Mar-14 5:00am

My initial response was to Gramas19, no to you. But I'm glad if it answered your question too.
Cheers
Andi

agent_kruger 10-Mar-14 6:34am

ok sir.

Andreas Gieriet 9-Mar-14 8:57am

Thanks for your 5!
Depends on the expectation. You cannot simply take what you get from the ILSpy and compile. But it gives you a hint on how it was implemented.
If one manages to loose his source code, this is better than nothing ;-)
Cheers
Andi

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ZurdoDev · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-10T08:20:00

Solution 2

To loop through a listbox and look for text you can do something similar to:

C#

for (Int32 i = 0; i < list.Items.Count; i++)
{
  if (list.Items[i].ToString()=="value")
   {

  }
}

Posted 10-Mar-14 8:20am

ZurdoDev