Question

I have a ListBox with items that fill TextBoxes. How do I identify the text string that is selected when a selection is made from the ListBox. Here’s my XAML code for the ListBox:

<StackPanel x:Name="InputPanel" Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Left">
    <StackPanel>
        <TextBlock Text="Input" Style="{StaticResource H2Style}"/>
        <TextBlock Text="Select Scenario:" Style="{StaticResource H3Style}"/>
        <ListBox x:Name="ScenarioList" Margin="0,0,20,0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" SelectionChanged="ScenarioList_SelectionChanged">
            <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}"/>
                </DataTemplate>
            </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
            <ListBoxItem x:Name="Scenario1">
                <TextBlock Style="{StaticResource ListBoxTextStyle}" Text="1) Pick a single photo" />
            </ListBoxItem>
            <ListBoxItem x:Name="Scenario2">
                <TextBlock Style="{StaticResource ListBoxTextStyle}" Text="2) Pick multiple files" />
            </ListBoxItem>
            <ListBoxItem x:Name="Scenario3">
                <TextBlock Style="{StaticResource ListBoxTextStyle}" Text="3) Pick a folder" />
            </ListBoxItem>
            <ListBoxItem x:Name="Scenario4">
                <TextBlock Style="{StaticResource ListBoxTextStyle}" Text="4) Save a file" />
            </ListBoxItem>
        </ListBox>
    </StackPanel>

I have tried all kinds of things in my selection_changed method. Here’s the latest one:

object selectedItem = ScenarioList.SelectedItem;
ListBoxItem selected = this.ScenarioList.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(this.ScenarioList.SelectedItem) as ListBoxItem;
string tempStr = selected.Content.ToString();

Answer 1

ListBoxItem listBox_Item = listBox.SelectedItem as ListBoxItem;
MessageBox.Show("You have selected " + listBox_Item.Content.ToString());

or You can try this one on Selection changed event

 private void ScenarioList_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e) 
  {
        if (((ListBox)sender).SelectedItem != null)
        MessageBox.Show("You have selected " + (ListBox)sender).SelectedItem);
  }