Windows Phone 7 longlistselector - windows-phone-7

Good day,
I have toolkit LongListSelector and i want programatically set the element from existing ones. I have tried by making SelectedItem, but it does not highlight elements from the LongList. Can anyone share how can i do this ?

As Toni Petrina mentioned, try searching in net. Lots of blogs like the followings will help you,
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpapps/Highlight-a-selected-item-30ced444
http://www.getcodesamples.com/src/9A9E24E9

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