I wrote some code to handle this for my project just the other day. Perhaps this will help.
public static List<SPFieldLookupValue> GetLookupFieldValues(SPList list, string fieldName)
{
var results = new List<SPFieldLookupValue>();
var field = list.Fields.GetField(fieldName);
if (field.Type != SPFieldType.Lookup) throw new SPException(String.Format("The field {0} is not a lookup field.", fieldName));
var lookupField = field as SPFieldLookup;
var lookupList = list.ParentWeb.Lists[Guid.Parse(lookupField.LookupList)];
var query = new SPQuery();
query.Query = String.Format("<OrderBy><FieldRef Name='{0}'/></OrderBy>", lookupField.LookupField);
foreach (SPListItem item in lookupList.GetItems(query))
{
results.Add(new SPFieldLookupValue(item.ID, item[lookupField.LookupField].ToString()));
}
return results;
}
Then, to use it, your code would look something like this:
var list = SPContext.Current.Web.Lists["My List"];
var results = GetLookupFieldValues(list, "Actual City");
foreach (SPFieldLookupValue result in results)
{
var value = result.LookupValue;
var id = result.LookupId;
}
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