Saving a combobox item to the database.

Question

I have a combobox with hard coded combobox items. Each combobox item has a tag which represent the value that I would like to save to the database. How do I pull the tag from a combobox item?
Is there an easier way to bind a comboboxitem?

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Answer 1

Hi,
Could you please tell your scenario bit more clear?
What are you trying to do here?Some code sample should help

Thank You

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Answer 2

Hi Garvander,

I'm not sure whether I understand your problem, if the ComboBox is set up in this way:

        <ComboBox name="comboBox1">
            <ComboBoxItem Content="a1" Tag="bbb1"/>
            <ComboBoxItem Content="a2" Tag="bbb2"/>
            <ComboBoxItem Content="a3" Tag="bbb3"/>
            <ComboBoxItem Content="a4" Tag="bbb4"/>
        </ComboBox>

Then you can get the Tag value directly from the ComboBoxItem:

 private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            foreach (ComboBoxItem item in comboBox1.Items)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(item.Tag .ToString());
            }
        }

If anything is unclear, please feel free to let me know.

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Answer 3

The user needs to pick a value from a combobox. The selection is text and its id needs to be saved in the database. I am open to any solution the works.

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Answer 4

Hi,
Get the Combobox SelectedItem whenever you want to save to the database.
Kindly tell what is the issue you are facing?

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Answer 5

which item in the foreach loop is the selected item?

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Answer 6

THe selected item is text and I want to save the corresponding id. Same way a select box works in HTML.

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Answer 7

 

ComboBoxItem cbi = (ComboBoxItem)ComboType.SelectedItem;
if (cbi != null){
int type = Convert.ToInt32(cbi.Tag.ToString());
item.InventoryTypeId = type;
}
The above code works fine.

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