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Asked: 2026-05-21T19:55:20+00:00

I have few items in the listbox. When I select an item, I store

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I have few items in the listbox. When I select an item, I store it in a string for further use, but when I display that string value it is shown as null.

Below is the code for my Invitee.aspx file:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Invitee.aspx.cs" Inherits="FinalProj2.Invitee" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>

        <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server">
        </asp:DropDownList>
        <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList2" runat="server">
        </asp:DropDownList>
        <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList3" runat="server">
        </asp:DropDownList>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList4" runat="server">
        </asp:DropDownList>
        <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList5" runat="server">
        </asp:DropDownList>
        <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList6" runat="server">
        </asp:DropDownList>

    </div>
    <asp:ListBox ID="ListBox1" runat="server" AutoPostBack="true" Height="310px" 
        onselectedindexchanged="ListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged" Width="271px">
    </asp:ListBox>
    <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Height="217px" Width="544px"></asp:TextBox>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

And code for Invitee.aspx.cs:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace FinalProj2
{
    public partial class Invitee : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        FinalProj2.Models.DataClasses1DataContext db = new FinalProj2.Models.DataClasses1DataContext();

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            for (int i = 1; i < 13; i++)
            {
                DropDownList1.Items.Add(new ListItem(i.ToString()));
                DropDownList4.Items.Add(new ListItem(i.ToString()));
            }

            for (int i = 1; i < 32; i++)
            {
                DropDownList2.Items.Add(new ListItem(i.ToString()));
                DropDownList5.Items.Add(new ListItem(i.ToString()));
            }

            for (int i = 2010; i < 2021; i++)
            {
                DropDownList3.Items.Add(new ListItem(i.ToString()));
                DropDownList6.Items.Add(new ListItem(i.ToString()));
            }


            var query = from emp in db.Employees
                        select emp.Employee_Name;

            ListBox1.DataSource = query;
            ListBox1.DataBind();
        }

        protected void ListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Response.Write("Hello");

            string selected = ListBox1.SelectedValue.ToString();

            Response.Write("\n Selected Value is" + selected);

            var query = from emp in db.Employees
                        where emp.Employee_Name == selected
                        select emp.Employee_ID;

            Response.Write(query);

            //int empid = query.First();

            //var query1 = from meet_emp in db.Meet_Emps
            //             where meet_emp.Employee_ID == empid
            //             select meet_emp.Meeting_ID;

            //int meetid = query1.First();

            //Response.Write(meetid);
        }
    }
}

Value of string “selected” is null after I select an item in list box.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s because you are running ListBox1.DataBind() on every cycle. Change to:

    if (!IsPostBack)
{
    var query = from emp in db.Employees
                select emp.Employee_Name;

    ListBox1.DataSource = query;
    ListBox1.DataBind();
}
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