Question

I have used the following code…

ComboboxItem item = new ComboboxItem();
item.Value = "M232M2333";
item.Text = "Apples";
comboSpriteSelect.Items.Add(item);

This is an example but in reality I’m reading hundreds of these values from a text file and applying them to the combobox.

I don’t seem to be able to get the .Value property back when I use .SelectedValue, but when I debug I see the value is assigned to the combobox.

lbl1.Text = comboSpriteSelect.SelectedValue.ToString();

Can anyone provide a solution? Is it because I’m not binding data?

Answer 1

Since you have ComboboxItem object in combo items. Get the ComboboxItem from SelectedItem and take the value back of ComboboxItem class by casting the SelectedItem back to ComboboxItem .

lbl1.Text = ((ComboboxItem)comboSpriteSelect.SelectedItem).Value;

If Value is not string then you may need to call ToString() on it

lbl1.Text = ((ComboboxItem)comboSpriteSelect.SelectedItem).Value.ToString();