Question

I am sure there is a simple solution to this, but I can’t seem to find it at the moment.

I am trying to disaply the content of the selection listbox in a textblock as text using the below code.

private void SelectionToText(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    ListBoxItem selection = (ListBoxItem)TextListBox.SelectedItem;

    selectionText.Text = "This is the " + selection;

}

For some reason the textblock just displays

“This is the System.Windows.Controls.ListBoxItem “

I initial thought it was because I hasn’t converted to a string, but that didn’t work either.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can reference the Content property of the ListBoxItem

selectionText.Text= "This is the " + selection.Content.ToString();