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Dmitriy Kudinov
Dmitriy Kudinov

Reputation: 1072

ComboBox / ListBox selected item

is there a more simple way to get combobox (WinForms) selected items text?

string result = comboBox1.Items[comboBox1.Selectedindex];

And in WPF's ComboBox?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1671

Answers (4)

Not So Sharp
Not So Sharp

Reputation: 1179

@Zenuka's method works but I think the following is somewhat "more correct" (avoiding casts when possible):

String result = comboBox1.SelectedItem.ToString();

Upvotes: 2

anakic
anakic

Reputation: 2978

Regarding WPF combobox: I don't think there is a good general way of getting the text of the selected combobox item in WPF. The wpf combobox displays its items in a template, which can be anything (i.e. several labels nested inside a stackpanel, inside a button etc...). The template need not even display any text, it can for instance display an image or something completly different. That said, i don't think there is much need for accessing the text strings inside a selected item's UI in a combobox. That is just UI for the user, the program should interact with the selected object (not it's UI representation). There might be some exceptions to this, tho, but in that case, you will have to make a specific solution for the item template that you use, because there is no one-size-fits-all solution for this.

Upvotes: 1

Zenuka
Zenuka

Reputation: 3250

What about 

string result = (string)comboBox1.SelectedItem

Is that more simple?

Upvotes: 2

Mawg
Mawg

Reputation: 40145

nope, sorry. That's it.

Just for interest, what part of it to you thiink is not simple?

Upvotes: 1

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