How can I get the CheckBoxList selected values, what I have doesn't seem to work C#.NET/VisualWebPart

Question

I am creating a CheckBoxList in a class file and am using an HTMLTextWriter to render the control.

I\'m using the following code to store the selected values in a s

Answer 1

An elegant way to implement this would be to make an extension method, like this:

public static class Extensions
{
    public static List GetSelectedItems(this CheckBoxList cbl)
    {
        var result = new List();

        foreach (ListItem item in cbl.Items)
            if (item.Selected)
                result.Add(item.Value);

        return result;
    }
}

I can then use something like this to compose a string will all values separated by ';':

string.Join(";", cbl.GetSelectedItems());