Trouble Emailing all contents of listbox

Fedexit22

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Okay, I think there's a simple solution that I can't find.
I have a listbox that acts as a running log, and I need the contents to be emailed to my boss.
Currently I can only get the first item that is selected to be sent, but I want all the contents of the listbox to be in the email body.

My goal is to have the whole log in the listbox send, without having to select anything.

Thank you in advance. :)

VB.NET:
        Dim Log
        Try
            Dim Mail As New MailMessage
            Mail.From = New MailAddress("From@gmail.com")
            Mail.To.Add("Destination@gmail.com")
            Mail.Subject = "Subject "

            Log = ListBox1.Text 'What do I put here to select all contents of the listbox?
            Mail.Body = Log

            Dim SMTP As New SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com")
            SMTP.Port = 587
            SMTP.EnableSsl = True
            SMTP.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential("Destination@gmail.com", "Password")
            SMTP.Send(Mail)
            MsgBox("Sent Successfully", vbInformation, "Thank you")
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox("There was an error, sorry!", vbCritical, "fatal error")
        End Try
 
Here's a couple of ways you can get all of the items into a string:

VB.NET:
        Me.ListBox1.Items.AddRange(New String() {"First Item", "Second Item", "Third Item", "Fourth Item"})

        'Using Array of Object
        Dim itemArray(Me.ListBox1.Items.Count - 1) As Object
        Me.ListBox1.Items.CopyTo(itemArray, 0)
        Dim stringOfAllItems As String = String.Join(Environment.NewLine, itemArray)

        'Using LINQ
        Dim s2 = String.Join(Environment.NewLine, From s In Me.ListBox1.Items)
 
listbox1.text will only give you the selected item's text.

use MattP's method to get all the items in the listbox and return it as 1 string with line seperators.

there are other ways to get the same results, but that one is easy and will work great for you.
 
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