C# – How to select all items in a listbox on checkbox checked

.net-2.0c++listboxwinforms

I need to select all items in a ListBox when a CheckBox is clicked. Is it possible to select all items in the ListBox using a single line of code? Or will I have to loop through all items and set selected to true for each one of them?

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The fact is that ListBox.Items is a plain object collection and returns plain untyped objects, which cannot be multi-selected (by default).

If you want to multi-select all items, then this will work:

   for (int i = 0; i < myListBox.Items.Count;i++)
   {
       myListBox.SetSelected(i, true);
   }

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Since Enum Type implements IConvertible interface, a better implementation should be something like this:

public T GetEnumFromString<T>(string value) where T : struct, IConvertible
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   //...
}

This will still permit passing of value types implementing IConvertible. The chances are rare though.

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In case of a value type use Activator.CreateInstance and it should work fine.
When using reference type just return null

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   }
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}

In the newer version of .net such as .net standard, type.IsValueType needs to be written as type.GetTypeInfo().IsValueType

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