Getting Your Selected Object From A Telerik MultiColumnComboBox

Wow! I’m actually writing code! 🙂

I thought this little snippet would be useful for anyone that is binding a custom collection of objects to a Telerik MultiColumnComboBox. If you want to get the selected item as your actual class – the custom class that you wrote and bound as a collection to the list, you can use this basic code:

private void MyComboBox_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

   GridViewDataRowInfo rowInfo = MyComboBox.SelectedItem as GridViewDataRowInfo;

   if (rowInfo != null)

   {

       MyClass myClass = rowInfo.DataBoundItem as MyClass;

       //do something with the 'myClass' variable, here.

   }

}

Hopefully this will save someone else some time in the debugger trying to figure out why ‘SelectedItem’ is not coming back as the class instance that was selected.