ListPicker, how to get the text from the selected item?

Question

How to get the text from the selected item? How to assign a variable of type string text ListPicker?

<toolkit:ListPicker x:Name="EncodingList">
                    <toolkit:ListPickerItem HorizontalAlignment="Center" Content="UTF-8" />
                    <toolkit:ListPickerItem HorizontalAlignment="Center" Content="Windows-1251" />
        </toolkit:ListPicker>

Answer 1

How to get the text from the selected item?

The simplest way is:

var content = ((ListPickerItem)EncodingList.SelectedItem).Content;