How To Populate ListBox From Database

I've given up on my harder stuff and have simplified it to something else. There are no errors that pop up now but the list box doesn't populate! I took the code from a book and there's a data adapter, data connection, and data set on the form already (they're not named in this code though, since the book didn't say to). When the program opens, the list box has a line of text in it and the list box doesn't fill with the right items.

Private Sub EditStock_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Try
Dim dsitemlist As New DataSet
Dim itemlistadapter As New OleDbDataAdapter _
("SELECT ItemName FROM Stock", ConnectString)
[Code] .....

And here's what shows in the box.
system.data.dataviewmanagerlistitemtypedescriptor