selected value

[Mark]

I have this codes below.. On this foreach (ddTo.Items) gives me all the customers inside the combobox, all I want whatever value is selected.. How can I get that? If I have more than one item SelectedValue is not working...by just saying .selectedValue = ..

 <telerik:RadComboBox ID="ddTo" runat="server" Width="99%" Skin="Windows7" AutoCompleteSeparator=";" 
                    DataSourceID="dsSelectCustomers" DataTextField="Name" DataValueField="custID" 
                    EmptyMessage="Enter Name(s)" MarkFirstMatch="true" AllowCustomText="true"  
                    ShowDropDownOnTextboxClick="false" ShowToggleImage="false" />

 string comboBoxValue="" ;               
                foreach (RadComboBoxItem item in ddTo.Items)
                {
                    comboBoxValue = comboBoxValue + ((comboBoxValue == "") ? "" : ",") + item.Value;
                }

[Ivana]

Hi Mark ,

In order to get the selected items you should first split the text from the input based on the auto complete separator and find the corresponding items as shown below:

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string comboText = RadComboBox1.Text;
        String[] selectedTexts = comboText.Split(';');
        List<RadComboBoxItem> selectedItems = new List<RadComboBoxItem>();

        foreach (var text in selectedTexts)
        {
            selectedItems.Add(RadComboBox1.Items.FindItemByText(text));
        }

    }

The ASPX code is as follows:

<telerik:RadComboBox ID="RadComboBox1" runat="server" Width="50%" Skin="Windows7" AutoCompleteSeparator=";"
                    EmptyMessage="Enter Name(s)" MarkFirstMatch="true" AllowCustomText="true"
                    ShowDropDownOnTextboxClick="false" >
            <Items>
                <telerik:RadComboBoxItem Text="Biographies"  Value="Biographies"/>
                <telerik:RadComboBoxItem Text="Children's Books" Value="Children's Books" runat="server"/>
                <telerik:RadComboBoxItem Text="Computers � Internet" Value="Computers � Internet" runat="server"/>
                <telerik:RadComboBoxItem Text="Cooking" Value="Cooking" runat="server"/>
                <telerik:RadComboBoxItem Text="History" Value="History" runat="server"/>
                <telerik:RadComboBoxItem Text="Fiction" Value="Fiction" runat="server"/>
            </Items>
        </telerik:RadComboBox>
        <asp:Button ID="Button1" Text="text" runat="server" OnClick="Button1_Click"/>

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Ivana
the Telerik team