Listbox - if (item.selected) not responding as expected

[ewalsh9898]

while processing the items in a listbox foreach loop, the if (item.selected) never finds expected row(s)

The foreach is looping thru the data as expected.

<asp:ListBox runat="server" ID="lstFrom" Width="250" Height="200" SelectionMode="Multiple"></asp:ListBox>
<asp:ListBox runat="server" ID="lstTo" Width="250" Height="200" SelectionMode="Multiple"></asp:ListBox>
 
protected void btnSelectOne_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        MoveSelectedItem(lstFrom, lstTo);
    }
 
private void MoveSelectedItem(ListBox fromListBox, ListBox toListBox)
    {
        List<ListItem> selected = new List<ListItem>();
 
        foreach (ListItem item in fromListBox.Items)
        {
            if (item.Selected) selected.Add(item);          // this is not being hit
        }
    }

[Kara Hewett]

A few problems could cause the if(item.selected) line to not be hit:

1. The code snippet doesn't demonstrate where fromListBox is initialized with values.
2. The data type is not correctly identified. Perhaps use a var type such as

foreach (var item in fromListBox.Items)
{
if (item.Selected) selected.Add(item);
}