Getting Selected ListItem’s Using LINQ

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Getting Selected ListItem’s Using LINQ

I had a friend just show me this really simple way when you are employing a ListBox control and want to get the ListItem.Selected items using LINQ in strongly typed collection to execute FirstOrDefault() etc.

Simply use:

As a lambda expression:

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C#:

var box = new ListBox();
var selectedItems = box.Items.Cast<ListItem>().Where(li => Equals(li.Selected, true));

As a statement:

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C#:

var box = new ListBox();
var selectedItems = box.Items.Cast<ListItem>().Where(li => { return Equals(li.Selected, true); });

Really simple!

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3 Comments »

Good Tip! Didn’t know you could do this without a typed iteration through the listitem collection.

Comment by John Fortnership — September 8, 2009 @ 10:08 am
This is a pretty good tip. Thanks a lot for the post. Could probably cut down on some foreach loops I have running internally

Comment by James Forker — September 8, 2009 @ 10:10 am
Nice refactoring!

Comment by Steve Christopherson — September 8, 2009 @ 8:46 pm