How to extract value from selected TextBlock element in a ListBox?

I'm using a ListBox to display all values contained in Dictionary<> object:

<ListBox Height="519" x:Name="ContactsListBox" Width="460" Margin="0,0,0,0" SelectionChanged="ContactsListBox_SelectionChanged">
        <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
            <DataTemplate>
                <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
                    <TextBl开发者_如何学Cock Text="{Binding Key}" Margin="5" Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}"/>
                    <TextBlock x:Name ="LastNameData" Text="{Binding Value}" Margin="20, 0" />
                </StackPanel>
            </DataTemplate>
        </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

Content is filled by the following code:

Dictionary<long, Contact> contacts = new Dictionary<long, Contact>();
this.ContactsListBox.ItemsSource = contacts;

Now, I would like to 'know' which specific "Contact" in ListBox is currently selected, either by knowing its Key, or just by extracting value from "LastNameData" TextBlock.

I tried doing something like that, but obviosly it doesn't work:

private void ContactsListBox_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
    ListBox lb = this.ContactsListBox.SelectedItem as ListBox;
    this.Test_SomeOtherTextBlock.Text = lb.ToString();
}

I would really appreciate your help!

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you can even do the follwing:

<ListBox Height="519" x:Name="ContactsListBox" Width="460" Margin="0,0,0,0" >
            <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Key}" Margin="5"/>
                        <TextBlock x:Name ="LastNameData" Text="{Binding Value}" Margin="20, 0" />
                    </StackPanel>
                </DataTemplate>
            </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
        </ListBox>
        <Grid DataContext="{Binding ElementName=ContactsListBox, Path=SelectedItem}" Margin="0,470,0,0">
            <TextBlock Text="{Binding Value}"/>
        </Grid>

So you don't need code behind...

BR,

TJ

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There are several problems:

In Xaml you probably don't want to display the class name, but a reasonable string, for example:

<TextBlock x:Name ="LastNameData" Text="{Binding Value.LastName}" Margin="20, 0" />

In the selection processing the selected item is KeyValuePair<...>. You could easily find it yourself, if you looked at the returned type in debugger. (Should be kind of a reflex for a programmer, hence a questions like above should never appear :))

private void ContactsListBox_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e) { 
    KeyValuePair<long, Contact> kv = (KeyValuePair<long, Contact>)this.ContactsListBox.SelectedItem;
    Contact c = (Contact)kv.Value;
    Debug.WriteLine(c.LastName);
}

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Your code is good, using ListBox.SelectedItem is the right approach.

I think the problem is that you should cast it as ListBoxItem, not ListBox. And also to get to its value using DataContext, so something like along these lines (not tested, I'm not sure about accessing DataContext value in the last line):

private void ContactsListBox_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
    ListBoxItem lbi = this.ContactsListBox.SelectedItem as ListBoxItem;
    var dataContext = lbi.DataContext;
    this.Test_SomeOtherTextBlock.Text = dataContext.Value.ToString();
}

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Try this it works for me, will help you to...

private void ListBox_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)

{

ListBox ContactListBox = sender as ListBox;

ListBoxItem listBoxItem = ContactListBox .ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(ContactListBox.SelectedItem) as ListBoxItem;

if (listBoxItem == null)

{

            return;

}

TextBlock txtBlock = FindVisualChildByName(listBoxItem, "ListTextBlock");

MessageBox.Show(txtBlock.Text);

}

    private static T FindVisualChildByName<T>(DependencyObject parent, string name) where T : DependencyObject
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(parent); i++)
        {
            var child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(parent, i);
            string controlName = child.GetValue(NameProperty) as string;
            if (controlName == name)
            {
                return child as T;
            }
            T result = FindVisualChildByName<T>(child, name);
            if (result != null)
                return result;
        }
        return null;
    }

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private void ContactsListBox_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
    ListBox lb = this.ContactsListBox.SelectedItem as ListBox;
    this.Test_SomeOtherTextBlock.Text = lb.ToString();
}

will go something like this..

private void ContactsListBox_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
    ListBox lb = this.ContactsListBox.SelectedItem as ListBox;
    DataTemplate template=lb.ContentTemplate;
    //Now here you have to extract the content of the data template 
      and then you need to extract the TextBlock from that content.


}

This is just an overview of the functionality.Sorry not able to post complete code.