Help Understanding CheckedListBox

[Capt_Ron]

Hello and thank you for taking the time to look.

I Have a form that asks for options. I need the user to click any of the
options listed. I'd like to use the CheckedListBox for this but I need to
know how it works.

I have the options in a table in a database. I would like to have the
datasource of the CheckedListBox be a datareader that has 2 columns. One
column is the Primary Key and the other is the text of the option.

I'd like to save the Primary Key when the user click the options and then a
Save button. I don't need the text.

How can I set the Item and the Value in the CheckedListBox?
How can I retrieve all the values that were checked?

The books I have don't go into this kind of detail and help is helpless.

Thank you for taking your time to help
Ron.

[W.G. Ryan eMVP]

You can just use the indexer and check the Selected Property to determine if
it's been checked or not - done in a loop you can get all of the values -

if (checkboxlist1.Items[i].Selected)
{//Do Whatverr }
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp
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You can set it the reverse way - just use the indexer and set the Selected
Property to true
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Hello and thank you for taking the time to look.

I Have a form that asks for options. I need the user to click any of the
options listed. I'd like to use the CheckedListBox for this but I need to
know how it works.

I have the options in a table in a database. I would like to have the
datasource of the CheckedListBox be a datareader that has 2 columns. One
column is the Primary Key and the other is the text of the option.

I'd like to save the Primary Key when the user click the options and then a Save button. I don't need the text.

How can I set the Item and the Value in the CheckedListBox?
How can I retrieve all the values that were checked?

The books I have don't go into this kind of detail and help is helpless.

Thank you for taking your time to help
Ron.