WPF combobox SelectedValue binding to string

Question

I've bound my ComboBox SelectedValue to a string in my codebehind, but when the value is set, the string becomes a ComboBoxItem. How do I just bind the selected value as a string?

Answer 1

This is probably because you have ComboBoxItem objects as items in your ComboBox and string is a content of each ComobBoxItem. So try setting SelectedValuePath to "Content" on your ComboBox:

<ComboBox SelectedValuePath="Content" .../>