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Mohammad Hani
Mohammad Hani

Reputation: 469

How to get text from Combo box c# Wpf?

Whenever I'm trying to get text from combo box it extracts data like System.Windows.Controls.ComboBoxItem: Abc

How can I get only "Abc" ? I mean to say only value not entire stack trace. my code seems like:-

XAML:-

  <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Width="auto" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Margin="0,10,0,0">
            <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Left" FontFamily="/Vegomart;component/Images/#My type of font" Text="User Type:- " FontSize="18" Foreground="Black"/>
            <ComboBox x:Name="userType" HorizontalAlignment="Right" FontFamily="/Vegomart;component/Images/#My type of font" Width="170" FontSize="18" Foreground="Black" Margin="40,0,0,0"  >
                <ComboBoxItem> Abc</ComboBoxItem>
            </ComboBox>
        </StackPanel>

C#:-

string value = userType.SelectedItem.ToString();
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(value);

Your effort will be appreciated :).

Thanks,

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2793

Answers (4)

brunnerh
brunnerh

Reputation: 184516

<ComboBoxItem> Abc</ComboBoxItem> sets the Content to Abc, so you would need to cast your SelectedItem to ComboBoxItem and get that property.

(That the XAML sets the content can be seem in the base class ContentControl which has a ContentPropertyAttribute that defines which property to set.)

Upvotes: 1

mechanic
mechanic

Reputation: 781

    <ComboBox x:Name="userType" SelectionChanged="userType_SelectionChanged">
        <ComboBoxItem Content="Abc"/>
        <ComboBoxItem>Bcd</ComboBoxItem>
    </ComboBox>

Then in code behind:

    private void userType_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        var comboBox = sender as ComboBox;
        if (comboBox != null)
        {
            var comboBoxItem = comboBox.SelectedItem as ComboBoxItem;
            if (comboBoxItem != null)
            {
                var content = comboBoxItem.Content;
                System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(content);
            }
        }
    }

Upvotes: 3

Kip Morgan
Kip Morgan

Reputation: 738

You can get the content of the item:

ComboBoxItem item = (ComboBoxItem)userType.SelectedItem;
string value = (string)item.Content;
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(value);

Upvotes: 1

Cory Carlson
Cory Carlson

Reputation: 186

This should return the text of the selected item in the ComboBox.

    string value = userType.Text.ToString();

Upvotes: 1

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