[monashahid]

hi everyone!
need urgent help....plz

i m working with silverlight 4 and wcf ria services...
i have used a combobox which is binded with database value say firstname.

myapp.Web.domainservice context = new myapp.Web.domainservice();
            LoadOperation<employee_profile> userQueryOperation = context.Load(context.GetEmployee_profileQuery());
            comboBox1.ItemsSource = userQueryOperation.Entities;
            comboBox1.DisplayMemberPath = "fname";

that is fine but when i prints the value of selected item it gives the int no rather than string value.

string id2 = comboBox1.SelectedItem.ToString();

returns table name with selected value index like this;

employee_profile : 2

[tlhIn`toq]

What is the object type populating the ComboBox.Items collection?

What I mean is that .Items is really an object collection. It can contain strings, ints, widgets, or even Forms. You can put any kind of object into it. Maybe the type you are putting in has the .ToString overriden to supply a numeric value.


Put a breakpoint on this line:

string id2 = comboBox1.SelectedItem.ToString();

When it stops there, hover over the .SelectedItem and you will get a tooltip-like menu allowing you to look at the actual item.



Expand out the properties so you can see the important properties. If that doesn't give you a big clue as to why it isn't working, take a screenshot showing these values and post it, so we can all see it and maybe someone can help determine why.

I'm going to guess that the issue is here:

comboBox1.ItemsSource = userQueryOperation.Entities;
comboBox1.DisplayMemberPath = "fname";

The display member is different than the actual ItemsSource. But then you are trying to get a string out of the SelectedItem. Which probably doesn't contain a pretty looking firstname string or you wouldn't have to have done this displaymember technique to begin with. So the Item as supplied by ItemsSource only knows to return '2' as a string, probably from its .ToString() method being called automatically to provide a string as requested.

[JackOfAllTrades]

Moved to Silverlight forum

[monashahid]

thanks for the response,

i did as you say but still cant understand what is wrong with it so posting the snap shot

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[eclipsed4utoo]

Can you post the code for the employee_profile class? Are you overriding the ToString method for the class?

When you set the ItemsSource of a control to a collection of objects, the SelectedItem property will be the actual object, not the DisplayMember. So calling ToString is going to call the ToString method for the object.