I have a CheckBoxList with some items in it and when a user clicks a button, I want the value of the checked text boxes to be added to a single string. I've looked all throughout here for an answer but most of them don't work or produce undesired results. Here is the code I have so far:
string selectedItems = CheckBoxList1.Items.???
Not sure where to go from here. Any help is appreciated!
You can use String.Join with LINQ like:
string selectedItems = String.Join(",",
CheckBoxList1.Items.OfType<ListItem>().Where(r => r.Selected)
.Select(r => r.Text));
This will give you a comma separated string of all selected items.
OfType thing is necessary here?
OfType or Cast to use LINQ otherwise it is just a ItemCollection and you can't use LINQ over it.IEnumerable and not IEnumerable<T>. Therefore you can't use LINQ over it.Try this:
var selected = string.Join(", ", CheckBoxList1.Items.Cast<ListItem>()
.Where(li => li.Selected).Select(x => x.Value).ToArray());
value instead of the text.