[VB/VB .NET] Access entire row from 2D array

[Crackler]

Should be simple but I just can't seem to get it. :whistle:

I have a 2D array with 22 rows and 4 columns. The application has to display certain rows depending on which options are selected. How can I display entire rows at a time without having to access the row cell by cell?

Thanks!

[Rohdekill]

As far as I know, you can't.

[Crackler]

I have a drop drown box and several check boxes. What is displayed in the large text box depends on what is selected in the drop down box or what is selected through the check boxes. The information is pulled through the click of a button which checks the drop down box and check box selections.

What would be the best way to go about it?

[+Majesticmerc MVC]

What are you using to display the rows?

[boogerjones]

  On 05/04/2010 at 02:58, Crackler said:

How can I display entire rows at a time without having to access the row cell by cell?

By not putting it in a 2D-array. What's currently in your array?

  On 05/04/2010 at 03:07, Crackler said:

I have a drop drown box and several check boxes. What is displayed in the large text box depends on what is selected in the drop down box or what is selected through the check boxes. The information is pulled through the click of a button which checks the drop down box and check box selections.

What would be the best way to go about it?

This is waaaaaaaay too vague. You're gonna have to be more specific about what kind of data you're trying to access and display.

[Crackler]

Each row has the following information:

Year - Movie - Actor - Adjusted Box Office

I have 22 rows of this information and each check box has one of the actor's names. For each actor chosen I have to display each row which contains their name. I wanted to know if I could reference the entire row instead of having to do (1, 0), (1, 1), (1, 2), (1 ,3) to get one row.

Less vague now? :blush:

[boogerjones]

Sorry, Crackler, but I'm still wickedly confused about what exactly you're doing. Any sane individual would create a class or struct that has those 4 pieces of information as members.

But you're still just leaving too much information out for me to even begin to understand the specific problem. What datatypes are you using? How is the data being displayed? What control is being used to display the data? What's the data source? Christ, just post some code for us.

And most importantly: why does it matter that you have to make 4 index calls to get a row of data?? A computer does that in millseconds and it's not exactly difficult code.

I must be missing something.

[sgrajan]

As boogerjones told, the easiest way would be creating a class or struct. Otherwise, you need to go through cells....if you have large amount of data....you can use db & LINQ/SQL for accessing rows and displaying them in grids.