Why Does ListControl.Text Return The *value* Of The Selected ListItem Rather Than The *text*
Mar 8, 2011
List controls deriving from ListControl, such as DropDownList, ListBox or RadioButtonList, are populated by a list of ListItems. A ListItem has a Value and a Text property.
ListControl offers the following methods to access the currently selected item:
ListControl.SelectedItem returns the currently selected ListItem,
ListControl.SelectedValue returns the Value property of the currently selected ListItem.
Now, the interesting thing is:
ListControl.Text returns exactly the same value as ListControl.SelectedValue. It does not return SelectedItem.Text, as one might expect.
This is by design:
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The Text property gets and sets the same value that the SelectedValue property does.
This seems counter-intuitive and confuses people. My question is: Why was it done this way? I can imagine that providing a Text property is necessary for implementing the ITextControl interface, but why on earth would you choose to have it return the Value of the ListItem rather than the Text?
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