listbox selected items in winform

Question

I have listbox, button, and textbox controls in a Windows application. How can I display multiple selected values in a textbox.

this is my code

textBox1.Text = listBox1.SelectedItems.ToString();

but it display in textbox like this: (I select more than one item)

System.Windows.Forms.ListBox+Selec.

please help me

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score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited May 25 '14 at 14:44

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You could do something like:

string text = "";

foreach (System.Data.DataRowView item in listBox1.SelectedItems) {
    text += item.Row.Field<String>(0) + ", ";
}
textBox1.Text = text;

edited May 25 '14 at 14:44

edi9999

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answered Sep 14 '09 at 09:32

Robban

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If there are many many elements, think about using StringBuilder as it's more efficient... – jdehaan Sep 14 '09 at 10:51
There's also a text = String.Join(" ", listBox1.SelectedItems); – Kornelije Petak Jan 29 '13 at 07:46

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 14 '09 at 09:31

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You need to iterate over the collection of items. Something like:

textBox1.Text = "";
foreach (object o in listBox1.SelectedItems)
   textBox1.Text += (textBox1.Text == "" ? "" :", ") + o.ToString();

answered Sep 14 '09 at 09:31

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 14 '19 at 16:38

The post is quite old but lacks a correct general answer which can work regardless of the data-bound item type for example for List<T>, DataTable, or can work regardless of setting or not setting DisplayMember.

The correct way to get text of an item in a ListBox or a ComboBox is using GetItemText method.

It doesn't matter what is the type of item, if you have used DataSource and DisplayMember it uses DisplayMember to return text, otherwise it uses ToString method of item.

For example, to get a comma-separated list of selected item texts:

var texts = this.listBox1.SelectedItems.Cast<object>()
                .Select(x => this.listBox1.GetItemText(x));

MessageBox.Show(string.Join(",", texts));

Note: For those who are looking for selected item values rather that selected item texts regardless of the item type and the value member field, they use GetItemValue extension method.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 31 '18 at 18:09

Actrually, if you know the type of object you input into ListBox, the selected item is that type, here is a sample: Input List of FileInfo to ListBox:

        FileInfo[] lFInfo = new DirectoryInfo(textBox1.Text).GetFiles();
        foreach (var i in lFInfo)
            lstFile.Items.Add(i);

A copy function to copy the selected files to path of textBox2.Text:

private void btnCopy_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
      foreach (FileInfo i in lstFile.SelectedItems)
          File.Copy(i.FullName, Path.Combine(textBox2.Text, i.Name));
  }

score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 14 '09 at 09:33

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ListBox.SelectedItems: Returns a collection of the currently selected items.

Loop through the SelectedItems collection of the listbox.

foreach (ListItem liItem in ListBox1.SelectedItems)
{
    // write your code.   
}

answered Sep 14 '09 at 09:33

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@rahul, there is no ListItem class in winforms like there is in webforms. – The Muffin Man Aug 22 '11 at 04:21

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