How to show a display value for selected node in treeview in C#?

Question

I am trying to create a treeview which pulls info from a sql database. I want the text to be the name field but when you double click the name i want it to display the id field. I have look and looked but cant find any info on this?

Code tried (Added from OP's comment):

   foreach (DataRow dr in Db.Table("Employee").Rows) 
   { 
      treeView1.Nodes.Add(
             new TreeNode(dr["Name"].ToString(),
             new TreeNode[] {new TreeNode(dr["EEID"].ToString())}));
   } 
      var node = treeView1.SelectedNode.Nodes[0].Text; 
      MessageBox.Show(string.Format("You selected: {0}", node));

Answer 1

When you create new nodes for a TreeView you can specify a text value and a key value, like so:

TreeView tv = new TreeView();
tv.Nodes.Add(key, text); //where key is your database id value, and text the display 

Then you'd simply return the key of the clicked node. Is this what you want?

EDIT: This is what happens when you speak from memory... this is wrong . 'key' is not a hidden key value, like an ID, 'key' is the name of the tree node. Please hold while I give you a proper solution.

** EDIT2 (SOLVED) ** : You can also use the Name property. Like this:

tView.Nodes.Add("Id_0001", "Mr. Dexter");

then you could retrieve the values of that node with something like this:

    private void tvView_AfterSelect(object sender, TreeViewEventArgs e)
    {
        TreeNode node = e.Node;
        MessageBox.Show(node.Name + "\n" + node.Text);
    }

which would yield the results: "Id_0001" and "Mr. Dexter".

Answer 2

foreach (DataRow dr in Db.Table("Employee").Rows)
{ 
  TreeNode tn = new TreeNode(); 
  tn.Tag = dr["eeid"]; 
  tn.Text = dr["Name"].ToString(); 
  treeView1.Nodes.Add(tn); 
} 
private void treeView1_DoubleClick(object sender, EventArgs e) 
{ 
  MessageBox.Show(treeView1.SelectedNode.Tag.ToString()); 
}

Answer 3

you can use Mouse Click event. when you click on a particular node (assume it's not WPF cause then it's Items) you can get its Text from SelectedNode property.

 private void btnGetNodeValue_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string nodeVal=  treeView1.SelectedNode.Text;

        }

then you can pass this string value to database to retrieve your value,mix up with Select statement and WHERE clause so you can easily get it.