How To Create WPF Multiple Column CheckedListBox Using XAML

Kavitha

15 years ago

Working with WPF is lot of fun. We can configure every element of WPF controls to render them as we want. But identifying the configuration elements that need to be modified is the toughest task. Having many years of WinForms development experience, did not help me much to easily adopt to WPF programming. WPF is a brand new framework and it’s entirely different to WinForms.

After spending couple of days time with WPF, I learned the basic of Data Templates and configured WPF ListBox control to render it as a CheckedListBox control. Here is the XAML code to render a WPF ListBox control as a Checked ListBox control

Code

<ListBox Name="CategoryListBox"
         ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled"
         ItemsSource="{Binding Path=RefValues,
                UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
                SelectionMode="Multiple">
    <ListBox.ItemsPanel>
        <ItemsPanelTemplate>
            <WrapPanel />
        </ItemsPanelTemplate>
    </ListBox.ItemsPanel>
    <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate >
            <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"
                        MinWidth="150" MaxWidth="150"
                        Margin="0,5, 0, 5" >
                <CheckBox
                    Name="checkedListBoxItem"
                    IsChecked="{Binding
                            RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor,
                            AncestorType={x:Type ListBoxItem} },
                            Path=IsSelected, Mode=TwoWay}" />
                <ContentPresenter
                    Content="{Binding
                            RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent},
                            Path=Content}"
                    Margin="5,0, 0, 0" />
            </StackPanel>
        </DataTemplate>
    </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>