Setting selected item in a ListBox without looping

Question

I have a multi-select listbox which I am binding to a DataTable. DataTable contains 2 columns description and value.

Here\'s the listbox populating code:

Answer 1

If you do not want looping for selected items then retrieve selected value of list box from the listBox_SelectedIndexChanged event and add that value in global array. Then by accessing that array you would get desire selected items value of itemlist with out any loop.