Populate ASP.NET ListBox with Sequential Numbers using LINQ

Usually when one thinks of populating a control like a ListBox with sequential numbers, the first thing that comes to a developers mind is to use a for loop. However with the LINQ Range Operator, generating a sequence of number is quite simple.

Let us see how to use the LINQ Range Operator to populate an ASP.NET ListBox with a Sequence of Numbers.

As you can see, just a line of code and your ListBox is populated with a sequence of numbers from 1 to 30

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Suprotim Agarwal, Developer Technologies MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) is the founder and contributor for DevCurry, DotNetCurry and SQLServerCurry. He is the Chief Editor of a Developer Magazine called DNC Magazine. He has also authored two Books - 51 Recipes using jQuery with ASP.NET Controls. and The Absolutely Awesome jQuery CookBook.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...: i thing that you write for making your site big. because many time i found that topic are too small.

are their any good thing whenever article not come in search.

in both case i am right.; January 30, 2011 at 2:48 AM
Suprotim Agarwal said...: :) Articles being being or small doesn't matter. I share practical solutions which I encounter during my consulting assignments. If I stumbled across a problem, there is a possibility that someone else could have the same issue, and hopefully my solution could help the ones who need it!

I am not sure what you meant by the search thing. Could you rephrase it?; January 30, 2011 at 7:22 PM