I'm sure this is a newbie question.... but I've pulled every book off of Barnes and Nobles and Books a Million as well as looking through online forums, and can't find an answer.
I have a NameValueListBase (a list of Admin Settings for the app) databound to a windows form UI listbox. I want to grab the integer representation of an item in the NameValueListBase, within a button click method.
So there is a public class AdminSettingsList: NameValueListBase<int, string>
there is an adminSettingsListBindingSource
and there is an AdminSettingsListBox.
When a user clicks on the edit button, I need to grab the int of the selected Admin Setting, to populate a grid control with another object that corresponds to that Admin setting. How do I get the integer?
Thanks
Sometimes I think just posting to this forum pulls the answer out of my head. Let me apologize for figuring it out 2 seconds after posting this. But the answer I came up with is the following:
int integerSelected = int.Parse(this.AdminSettingsListBox.SelectedValue.ToStrng());
CSLABound:
But the answer I came up with is the following:
int integerSelected = int.Parse(this.AdminSettingsListBox.SelectedValue.ToStrng());
That probably works but its making the data jump through lots of unnecessary hoops.
AdminSettingsListBox.SelectedItem gives you a reference to the selected object in the collection which will be of type AdminSettingsList.NameValuePair. That has the strongly typed properties Key and Value. I think a cleaner answer is:
int integerSelected = ((AdminSettingsList.NameValuePair) AdminSettingsListBox.SelectedItem).Key
Cheers
Ross
Well, as long as we're throwing out alternate methods to acomplish this:
int integerSelected = (int)AdminSettingsListBox.SelectedValue;
Would be the shortest path to the value, assuming the Value property of the combobox is set to the interger column.
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