WPF Tip #18 - Extended WPF Toolkit - Using the CheckedListBox Control

In today's tip, we're going to take a quick look at another control in the Extended WPF Toolkit, the CheckedListBox control.

This control provides all of the functionality expected from a ListBox with the addition of checkboxes as a visual cue to indicate the selection state of each item.

Using the control is quite simple. Here's an example of the XAML required to display a CheckedListBox on a WPF window. It is binding to the same collection of Sentence objects used in Tip #17.

<tk:CheckListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Sentences, IsAsync=True}"
                  SelectedItem="{Binding SelectedSentence}"
                  Command="{Binding ItemSelectedCommand}"/>

ItemsSource binding to a collection to populate the list items. SelectedItem provides a way to find out the currently 'selected' item, the last item checked/unchecked. The Command will fire each time an item in the list is checked or unchecked, allowing ViewModel logic to act on this change.

Go give it a try in your WPF project. Happy coding!

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