Binding ComboBox item to string

I assume you want to get the text from the ComboboxItem and not the ComboBoxItem iteself.

So you are binding the wrong information. This should work.

<ComboBox          
SelectedValuePath="content" 
Text="{Binding ProductName}" 
            ......                       
<ComboBoxItem>1111111111</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>2222222222222</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>333333333333</ComboBoxItem>
</ComboBox>

Selected Item is of type ComboBoxItem, it will not accept String. If you want to display product name in some other place try maybe something like this:

 <TextBox Text="{Binding ElementName=my_ComboBox, Path=SelectedItem}"/>

Just a suggestion. You already use a binding for the SelectedItem, why don't you set up another binding for the Items using the ItemsSource? So you would not need to add them statically in your view.

In addition you would not have the trouble to wonder whether you deal with instances of ComboxItem or String with your SelectedItem binding. In case of the binding via ItemsSource you can be sure that the SelectedItem is a string.

Here is the code:

<ComboBox          
 SelectedValuePath="content" 
 SelectedItem="{Binding ProductName}"
 ItemsSource="{Binding ProductNames}"
</ComboBox>

In your view model (or code behind) you define the ProductNames:

public String[] ProductNames
{
    get
    {
        return _productNames;
    }
    set
    {
        if (_productNames!= value)
        {
            _productNames = value;
            RaisePropertyChangedEvent("ProductNames");
        }
    }
}
String[] _productNames;


public NameOfConstructor()
{
    List<String> productNames = new List<String>();
    productNames.Add("A");
    productNames.Add("B");
    productNames.Add("C");

    ProductNames = productNames.ToArray();
}

If it was possible that the list of names changes during execution, I would use a ObservableCollection<string> instead String[].

It should be like this

1. Create an observable collection of Product in View Model. Lets Say ProductCollection
2. Bind to the ComboBox ItemSource as given below

<ComboBox  Name="productComboBox"  Width="200" Height="30" ItemsSource="{Binding ProductCollection}">
                <ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
                    <DataTemplate>
                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=ProductName}"></TextBlock>
                    </DataTemplate>
                </ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
            </ComboBox>

if you want to show in textbox somewhere use this

<TextBox Text="{Binding ElementName=productComboBox, Path=SelectedItem}"/>