.NET 3.5 Listbox Selected Values (Winforms)

Question

I am BATTLING to get the selected values (please note VALUES not TEXT) from a Winforms Listbox that has multi-select enabled and has been bound to a database table getting t

Answer 1

Try casting each object in the collection to the desired type. For example, if my items are of type Customer, I could do something like this...

var selected = listBox1.SelectedItems;

foreach ( var item in selected )
{
    var singleCustomer = (Customer)item;
}

Now you can get any property you want from the Customer.

This is just a trivial example, but I'm sure you can apply the concept to your problem.

UPDATE (after question was updated to indicate the Listbox is bound to table):

If you're bound to a DataTable, you could try something like this (again, trivial but relevent):

var selected = listBox1.SelectedItems;

foreach ( var item in selected )
{
    var itemArray = ( (DataRowView)item ).Row.ItemArray;

    var name = itemArray[0];
    var id = itemArray[1];
}