Question

I’ve got a Dictionary<string, bool> object storing some items and their status: true means enabled, false means disabled.

I’d like to bind this object to a CheckedLIstBox, or alternatively, bind a List<string> and then loop through the Dictionary and use the key to access the CheckListBox items setting their status.

Which is the easiest way?

Answer 1

My suggestion would be to avoid the binding altogether. Microsoft does not promote the use of the DataSource property for a CheckedListBox.

Posted by Microsoft on 5/30/2005 at 10:28 AM

… We do not support data binding on the CheckedListBox control.
[The DataSource, DisplayMember, ValueMember properties]
properties are inherited from it base class and cannot be removed so
we hid them form the property grid and IntelliSense.

The Windows Forms Team.

Use the AddRange method to add your collection to the CheckedListBox at runtime and be done with it.