How can I reach the Tag of a checkedListBox-Item??

How can I reach the Tag of a checkedListBox-Item??

• Neeti

  Genius, man!
  
  Thanks a lot!!
  
  

• CTRon

  string baBez = (string)listboxBAS.Items[indexBA].Tag; // this doesn't work
  
  

• R_oo_T

  Try this then;
  
  ListViewItem item = (ListViewItem)listboxBAS.Items[indexBA];
  string baBez = (string)item.Tag;
  

• Big-O

  No, this doesn't work either.
  
  "listBA.Items[indexBA]" only returns Strings
  
  

• SEH

  The display you are seeing in your CheckedListBox is due to it automatically calling the ToString() method on the items it contains. In order to override that we need to specify the the name of the property within those items you want displayed instead. In this case we simply set DisplayMember to Text ala:

  listBA.DisplayMember = "Text";

  Just for note, DisplayMember may not show up in your intellisense display, rest assured though that it does exist as part of the CheckedListBox class and use it anyway, the compiler will be fine with it.

  
  
  

• Jandler2

  You can't use
  foreach (ListViewItem item in listBA.Items)
  because the CheckedListBox has no GetEnumerator()-Methode.
  
  Any other suggestions
  
  

• Expressmann

  If you are sure that each item in your CheckedListBox is a ListView Item then you can simply iterate through like so:

  foreach (ListViewItem item in listBA.Items)

  {

  //item.Tag is available

  }

  If the type is different then you may need to do a little more filtering like itterating through looking for objects and then checking types.

  Does this work for you

  
  
  

• dev.McClannahan411

  That was my first thought as well unfortunately the Items collection within the CheckedListBox control only returns objects, unlike ListView which does return ListViewItem-ed typed values.
  
  

• Ramirez3964

  No, only Equals(), getHashCode(), getType() and ToString().
  
  

• Simsabim

  Bah, I screwed up on my sample code to you... to confirm though... you are adding your own instances of the ListViewItem class to the CheckedListBox control

  If so... we do need to do a little more filtering:
  

  foreach (object o in listBA.Items)
  {
  ListViewItem item = o as ListViewItem;
  if (item != null)
  {
  Console.WriteLine(item.Tag);
  }
  }

  
  
  

• casgo

  But what kind of objects only strings
  
  

• DeepakGH

  Ok, I found my mistake:
  
  I only added text to the listview.
  When I add ListViewItems, I can use
  
  ListViewItem baItem = (ListViewItem)listBA.Items[indexBA];
  string baBez = (string)baItem.Tag;
  
  But the ugly thing is, that in my list every entry looks like this:
  
  ListViewItem: {1.BA}
  ListViewItem: {2.BA}
  
  Is there a way to just show the following
  
  1.BA
  2.BA
  
  
  
• How can I reach the Tag of a checkedListBox-Item??