Removing Duplicates from List Collection
Sounds really simple to pull duplicates out of a list ... MS handled this with a function in VS 3.5 but in earlier versions we had to come up with our own solution. Dim i As Integer Dim lastapprover As String = String .Empty Dim iIndex As Integer iIndex = bulletApprovers.Items.Count For i = 0 To bulletApprovers.Items.Count - 1 While iIndex > 0 If bulletApprovers.Items(i).Text = lastapprover Then lastapprover = bulletApprovers.Items(iIndex).Text bulletApprovers.Items.RemoveAt(iIndex) Else lastapprover = bulletApprovers.Items(iIndex - 1).Text End If iIndex = iIndex - 1 End While Next