Radio Button Group

Description: Visual Studio comes with the standard Group Panel and Radio Button controls; however, there is no control for mapping a group of radio buttons to one data field. The M$ recommendation is to use the drop down combo box; which is ok, unless you really want to use Radio Buttons.

There are a number of existing approaches used to create a Radio Button Group; however, none of these existing approaches appealed to me. So, I wrote a RadioButtonGroup control from scratch.

Usage:

1. Add the control to the project references.
2. Drag'N'Drop a RadioButtonGroup control on a form
3. Drag'N'Drop RadioButton controls on to the RadioButtonGroup control (one for each valid datasource value for the field)
4. Set the TagIndexType to one of {boolean, integer, enumeration}
5. Set the CurrentSelection to one of the RadioButtons in the group
6. Set the SelectedValue databinding to the datasource field
7. Set the TAG values on the RadioButton controls to match the corresponding datasource value for the field.

Notes:

• The TagIndexType {boolean} is for the ms-access boolean field type.
• The TagIndexType {integer} is for an integer field type.
• The TagIndexType {enumeration} is not supported at this time.
• The datasource is bound to the RadioButtonGroup control *not* to the individual RadioButton controls.
• The CurrentSelection pick list will include *all* Radio Button controls on the form (something I need to fix) so double check which control is being set (the controls should have a "good" name).

Platform: Visual Studio 2005 C# for DOT NET version 2.x.

Download

• Binary Package version 1.00

This control is licensed for "third party" redistribution and use; see the Redistribution License for details.

31-DEC-2007