Get selected value from combo box in C# WPF

Question

I have just started using WPF forms instead of Windows Forms forms. In a Windows Forms form I could just do:

ComboBox.SelectedValue.toString();

Answer 1

XAML:

<ComboBox Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="19,123,0,0" Name="comboBox1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="33" ItemsSource="{Binding}" AllowDrop="True" AlternationCount="1">
    <ComboBoxItem Content="1" Name="ComboBoxItem1" />
    <ComboBoxItem Content="2" Name="ComboBoxItem2" />
    <ComboBoxItem Content="3" Name="ComboBoxItem3" />
</ComboBox>

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C#:

if (ComboBoxItem1.IsSelected)
{
    // Your code
}
else if (ComboBoxItem2.IsSelected)
{
    // Your code
}
else if(ComboBoxItem3.IsSelected)
{
    // Your code
}

Answer 2

Ensure you have set the name for your ComboBox in your XAML file:

<ComboBox Height="23" Name="comboBox" />

In your code you can access selected item using SelectedItem property:

MessageBox.Show(comboBox.SelectedItem.ToString());

Answer 3

As a variant in the ComboBox SelectionChanged event handler:

private void ComboBoxName_SelectionChanged(object send ...
{
    string s = ComboBoxName.Items.GetItemAt(ComboBoxName.SelectedIndex).ToString();
}

Answer 4

It depends what you bound to your ComboBox. If you have bound an object called MyObject, and have, let's say, a property called Name do the following:

MyObject mo = myListBox.SelectedItem as MyObject;
return mo.Name;

Answer 5

Well.. I found a simpler solution.

String s = comboBox1.Text;

This way I get the selected value as string.

Answer 6

My XAML is as below:

<ComboBox Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="1" Height="25" Width="200" SelectedIndex="0" Name="cmbDeviceDefinitionId">
    <ComboBoxItem Content="United States" Name="US"></ComboBoxItem>
    <ComboBoxItem Content="European Union" Name="EU"></ComboBoxItem>
    <ComboBoxItem Content="Asia Pacific" Name="AP"></ComboBoxItem>
</ComboBox>

The content is showing as text and the name of the WPF combobox. To get the name of the selected item, I have follow this line of code:

ComboBoxItem ComboItem = (ComboBoxItem)cmbDeviceDefinitionId.SelectedItem;
string name = ComboItem.Name;

To get the selected text of a WPF combobox:

string name = cmbDeviceDefinitionId.SelectionBoxItem.ToString();