I am trying to get the selected items of an asp:ListBox control and put them in a comma delimited string. There has got to be a simpler way of doing this then:
foreach (ListItem listItem in lbAppGroup.Items)
{
if (listItem.Selected == true)
{
Trace.Warn("Selected Item", listItem.Value);
}
}
Is there a way to get this into one line? like my pseudo code here:
string values = myListBox.SelectedItems;
I am using ASP.NET and C# 3.5.
Thanks for any help!!
Using LINQ:
string values = String.Join(", ", lbAppGroup.Items.Cast<ListItem>()
.Where(i => i.Selected)
.Select(i => i.Value));
I don't think there is anything built in but you could do something like this:
<asp:ListBox runat="server" ID="listBox" SelectionMode="Multiple">
<asp:ListItem Selected="True" Text="text1" Value="value1"></asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem Selected="false" Text="text2" Value="value2"></asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem Selected="True" Text="text3" Value="value3"></asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem Selected="True" Text="text4" Value="value4"></asp:ListItem>
</asp:ListBox>
IEnumerable<string> selectedValues = from item in listBox.Items.Cast<ListItem>()
where item.Selected
select item.Text;
string s = string.Join(",", selectedValues);
var selectedQuery = listBox.Items.Cast<ListItem>().Where(item => item.Selected);
string selectedItems = String.Join(",", selectedQuery).TrimEnd();
Actually there IS something built in:
ListBox.getSelectedItems
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa297606(v=vs.60).aspx