Question

I have a listBox visually representing the items in a Dictionary. The Dictionary contains a custom class called Contact.

I want to use the strings in the listBox (which are the same as a Dicitonary reference) to refer to the Contact contained in the Dictionary. I am having trouble getting this working, if it is even possible.

Answer 1

as long as the text of the listBox is the key of the item in the dictionary, things should be fairly straightforward. (i may have mucked up the property names here)

var contact = dict[listBox.SelectedItem];