Iterating through multiple properties of selected item.

[Karl Rohrbach]

I have a foreach loop that iterates through the selected items that have multiple columns in my RadListBox

Example: 

foreach(RadListBoxItem item in AvailableSoftwareList.SelectedItems)
{
// get values from selected item.
}

So "item.Value" is a string of all the values within the selected row. How would I select those individual values?

Current: item.Value
Value: { ProductId = "3423", ProductName = "Item 1", SubProductId="12344", SubProductName = "Item 1x" }

I would like to be able to retrieve the values from what item.Value returns, like the following.

Example:
int prodId = 3423
string prodname = "Item 1"
int subprodId = 12344
string subprodname = "Item 1x"

Thanks in advance for suggestions or help.

[Peter Filipov]

Hello Karl,

Here is my suggestion how to process the string value and get all the values into a Dictionary:

string valueString = "{ ProductId = \"3423\", ProductName = \"Item 1\", SubProductId=\"12344\", SubProductName = \"Item 1x\" }";
valueString = valueString.Replace("{", "");
valueString = valueString.Replace("}", "");
var properties = valueString.Split(',');

var dictionary = new Dictionary<string, string>();
foreach(var property in properties)
{
    var tempValue = property;
    tempValue = tempValue.Replace("\"", "");
    tempValue = tempValue.Trim();
    var equalSignIndex = tempValue.IndexOf('=');
    dictionary.Add(tempValue.Substring(0, equalSignIndex - 1), tempValue.Substring(equalSignIndex + 1));
}

Best wishes,
Peter Filipov
the Telerik team

[Karl Rohrbach]

Thanks Peter.  I was thinking doing something similar.  I was just hoping there was some other way to identify the key/value pairs. 

I actually ended up taking a different approach by implementing a scrollable RadGrid with a button column.  Selecting an item would add the item to an object where I would bind it to another grid.