Confused with wpf ComboBox DisplayMemberPath,SelectedValue and SelectedValuePath

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I think we can understand this better with an example. See this class:

public class Employee
{
   public int Id { get; set; }
   public string Name { get; set; }
}

and the following xaml:

<ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource Employees}}"
          DisplayMemberPath="Name"
          SelectedValuePath="Id"/>

DisplayMemberPath points to the Name property, so the value displayed in the ComboBox and the Employee entries contained in the drop down list, will be the Name property of the Employee object.

To understand the other two, you should first understand SelectedItem. SelectedItem will return the currently selected Employee object from the ComboBox. You can also assign SelectedItem with an Employee object to set the current selection in the ComboBox.

SelectedValuePath points to Id, which means you can get the Id of currently selected Employee by using SelectedValue. You can also set the currently selected Employee in the ComboBox by setting the SelectedValue to an Id (which we assume will be present in the Employees list).

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