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I’ve been working with the CheckBoxList control and it’s annoying there is no property to get the selected items.

I wrote a simple extension method for ListControl, the abstract class that CheckBoxList and ListBox derive from, to get the selected items:

public static ListItemCollection GetSelectedItems(this ListControl source)
{
    ListItemCollection selectedItems = new ListItemCollection();

    foreach (ListItem item in source.Items)
    {
        if (item.Selected)
        {
            selectedItems.Add(item);
        }
    }

    return selectedItems;
}

I could loop through the selected items like so:

foreach (ListItem item in myCheckBoxList.GetSelectedItems())
{
    //Do something with the item
}

It would be even better if Microsoft implemented extension properties so that I can loose the parenthesis.