How to get indices of multiple item that were sele

Question

I want to get indices of all the items that are selected in given listbox, there is a SelectedItems method which return a collection of items:

listbox.SelectedItems

But there is no SelectedIndices method. The collection also doesn't contain an index for each item.

How can I know which item was selected in my listbox?

Answer 1

If you're binding a List or an ObservableCollection of items to the ListBox use

var indices = new List<Int32>();
foreach( var item in listbox.SelectedItems ) {
  var index = boundList.IndexOf( item as MyDataType );

  if( index != -1 ) {
    indices.Add( index );
  }
}

Answer 2

You can simply use IndexOf to find their index in the collection of items. For example, when binding a collection of items:

// create your list of items to display
List<MyObject> items = new List<MyObject>();

// NOTE: populate your list here!

// bind the items
listBox.ItemsSource = items;

You can find the selected index as follows:

var selectedItem = (MyObject)listBox.SelectedItems[0]
int index = items.IndexOf(selectedItem);