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c#windows-phone-8
abhinav pandey
abhinav pandey

Reputation: 584

Get the index of the selected item in longlistselector

I have a long list selector

<phone:LongListSelector x:Name="BTDevices"  SelectionChanged="BTDevices_SelectionChanged_1">
 <phone:LongListSelector.ItemTemplate>
  <DataTemplate>
   <StackPanel>
    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Name}" FontSize="30" />
   </StackPanel>
  </DataTemplate>
 </phone:LongListSelector.ItemTemplate>
</phone:LongListSelector>

The function is defined as:

private void BTDevices_SelectionChanged_1(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
//here i want to get the index of the selected item
}

I tried the following line

int a = App.ViewModel.Items.IndexOf(sender as ItemViewModel);

But it always returns -1.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4904

Answers (2)

VasileF
VasileF

Reputation: 2916

When the SelectionChanged event occurs, the senderparameter of the event handler represents the object that triggered this event. It is of type Object, but you can cast it to match your specific control type.

In this case, the LongListSelector :

var myItem = ((LongListSelector) sender).SelectedItem as Model;

(Model represents the type of data your control handles).

Afterwards, look for that item in the ItemsSource and retrieve its value :

var myIndex = ((LongListSelector) sender).ItemsSource.IndexOf(myItem);

You have named your control, so instead of (sender as LongListSelector), you could use its name, BTDevices, but the code lines I wrote was intended to show you what's what with the sender object.

Alternatively (and this is a more elegant way), shown by bland, you could use the EventArgs for selection : e.AddedItems[0]

Upvotes: 4

bland
bland

Reputation: 1994

sender is going to be who sent the fact that this event occurred. See SelectionChangedEventArgs at MSDN to know that you'll want to do e.AddedItems[0] if single-select list, or if multi-select list, you'll need to loop over it:

foreach(var item in e.AddedItems)

Upvotes: 1

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