What is the simplest way to get the selected text of a combo box containing only text entries?
In your xml add SelectedValuePath="Content"
<ComboBox Name="cboPickOne" SelectedValuePath="Content" > <ComboBoxItem>This</ComboBoxItem> <ComboBoxItem>should be</ComboBoxItem> <ComboBoxItem>easier!</ComboBoxItem></ComboBox>This way when you use .SelectedValue.ToString() in the C# code it will just get the string value without all the extra junk:
stringValue = cboPickOne.SelectedValue.ToString()
Just to clarify Heinzi and Jim Brissom's answers here is the code in Visual Basic:
Dim text As String = DirectCast(cboPickOne.SelectedItem, ComboBoxItem).Content.ToString()and C#:
string text = ((ComboBoxItem)cboPickOne.SelectedItem).Content.ToString();Thanks!
I just did this.
string SelectedItem = MyComboBox.Text;