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CheckBoxField Class

Represents a Boolean field that is displayed as a check box in a data-bound control.

System.Object
  System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataControlField
    System.Web.UI.WebControls.BoundField
      System.Web.UI.WebControls.CheckBoxField

Namespace:  System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
public class CheckBoxField : BoundField

The CheckBoxField type exposes the following members.

  Name Description
Public method CheckBoxField Initializes a new instance of the CheckBoxField class.
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  Name Description
Public property AccessibleHeaderText Gets or sets text that is rendered as the AbbreviatedText property value in some controls. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Public property ApplyFormatInEditMode Overrides the BoundField.ApplyFormatInEditMode property. This property is not supported by the CheckBoxField class. (Overrides BoundField.ApplyFormatInEditMode.)
Protected property Control Gets a reference to the data control that the DataControlField object is associated with. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Public property ControlStyle Gets the style of any Web server controls contained by the DataControlField object. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Public property ConvertEmptyStringToNull Overrides the BoundField.ConvertEmptyStringToNull property. This property is not supported by the CheckBoxField class. (Overrides BoundField.ConvertEmptyStringToNull.)
Public property DataField Gets or sets the name of the data field to bind to the CheckBoxField object. (Overrides BoundField.DataField.)
Public property DataFormatString Gets or sets the string that specifies the display format for the value of the field. This property is not supported by the CheckBoxField class. (Overrides BoundField.DataFormatString.)
Protected property DesignMode Gets a value indicating whether a data control field is currently viewed in a design-time environment. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Public property FooterStyle Gets or sets the style of the footer of the data control field. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Public property FooterText Gets or sets the text that is displayed in the footer item of a data control field. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Public property HeaderImageUrl Gets or sets the URL of an image that is displayed in the header item of a data control field. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Public property HeaderStyle Gets or sets the style of the header of the data control field. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Public property HeaderText Gets or sets the text that is displayed in the header of a data control. (Inherited from BoundField.)
Public property HtmlEncode Overrides the BoundField.HtmlEncode property. This property is not supported by the CheckBoxField class. (Overrides BoundField.HtmlEncode.)
Public property HtmlEncodeFormatString Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the formatted text should be HTML encoded before it is displayed. (Overrides BoundField.HtmlEncodeFormatString.)
Public property InsertVisible Gets a value indicating whether the DataControlField object is visible when its parent data-bound control is in insert mode. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Protected property IsTrackingViewState Gets a value indicating whether the DataControlField object is saving changes to its view state. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Public property ItemStyle Gets the style of any text-based content displayed by a data control field. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Public property NullDisplayText Gets or sets the text displayed for a field when the field's value is null. This property is not supported by the CheckBoxField class. (Overrides BoundField.NullDisplayText.)
Public property ReadOnly Gets or sets a value indicating whether the value of the field can be modified in edit mode. (Inherited from BoundField.)
Public property ShowHeader Gets or sets a value indicating whether the header item of a data control field is rendered. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Public property SortExpression Gets or sets a sort expression that is used by a data source control to sort data. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Protected property SupportsHtmlEncode Gets a Boolean value indicating whether the control supports HTML encoding. (Overrides BoundField.SupportsHtmlEncode.)
Public property Text Gets or sets the caption to display next to each check box in a CheckBoxField object.
Protected property ViewState Gets a dictionary of state information that allows you to save and restore the view state of a DataControlField object across multiple requests for the same page. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Public property Visible Gets or sets a value indicating whether a data control field is rendered. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
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  Name Description
Protected method CloneField Infrastructure. Creates a duplicate copy of the current DataControlField-derived object. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Protected method CopyProperties Copies the properties of the current CheckBoxField object to the specified DataControlField object. (Overrides BoundField.CopyProperties(DataControlField).)
Protected method CreateField Creates an empty CheckBoxField object. (Overrides BoundField.CreateField().)
Public method Equals(Object) Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method ExtractValuesFromCell Fills the specified System.Collections.IDictionary object with the values from the specified DataControlFieldCell object. (Overrides BoundField.ExtractValuesFromCell(IOrderedDictionary, DataControlFieldCell, DataControlRowState, Boolean).)
Protected method Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method FormatDataValue Formats the specified field value for a cell in the BoundField object. (Inherited from BoundField.)
Protected method GetDesignTimeValue Retrieves the value used for the field's value when rendering the CheckBoxField object in a designer. (Overrides BoundField.GetDesignTimeValue().)
Public method GetHashCode Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method GetValue Retrieves the value of the field bound to the BoundField object. (Inherited from BoundField.)
Public method Initialize Initializes the BoundField object. (Inherited from BoundField.)
Public method InitializeCell Initializes the specified TableCell object to the specified row state. (Inherited from BoundField.)
Protected method InitializeDataCell Initializes the specified DataControlFieldCell object to the specified row state. (Overrides BoundField.InitializeDataCell(DataControlFieldCell, DataControlRowState).)
Protected method LoadViewState Restores the previously stored view-state information for this field. (Inherited from BoundField.)
Protected method MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method OnDataBindField Binds the value of a field to a check box in the CheckBoxField object. (Overrides BoundField.OnDataBindField(Object, EventArgs).)
Protected method OnFieldChanged Raises the FieldChanged event. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Protected method SaveViewState Saves the changes made to the DataControlField view state since the time the page was posted back to the server. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Public method ToString Returns a string that represents this DataControlField object. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Protected method TrackViewState Causes the DataControlField object to track changes to its view state so they can be stored in the control's ViewState property and persisted across requests for the same page. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Public method ValidateSupportsCallback Determines whether the controls contained in a CheckBoxField object support callbacks. (Overrides BoundField.ValidateSupportsCallback().)
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  Name Description
Explicit interface implemetation Private property IDataSourceViewSchemaAccessor.DataSourceViewSchema Infrastructure. Gets or sets the schema associated with this DataControlField object. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Explicit interface implemetation Private property IStateManager.IsTrackingViewState Infrastructure. Gets a value indicating whether the DataControlField object is saving changes to its view state. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Explicit interface implemetation Private method IStateManager.LoadViewState Infrastructure. Restores the data control field's previously saved view state. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Explicit interface implemetation Private method IStateManager.SaveViewState Infrastructure. Saves the changes made to the DataControlField view state since the time the page was posted back to the server. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
Explicit interface implemetation Private method IStateManager.TrackViewState Infrastructure. Causes the DataControlField object to track changes to its view state so they can be stored in the control's ViewState property and persisted across requests for the same page. (Inherited from DataControlField.)
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The CheckBoxField class is used by data-bound controls (such as GridView and DetailsView) to display the value of a Boolean data field in a check box. The CheckBoxField object is displayed differently depending on the data-bound control in which it is used. For example, the GridView control displays a CheckBoxField object as a column, while the DetailsView control displays it as a row.

Note Note

A check box is disabled (read-only) until the data-bound control displays a record that contains the check box in edit mode. For more information on how to put a record into edit mode, see the documentation for the parent control that contains the CheckBoxField object.

To specify the field to display in a CheckBoxField object, set the DataField property with the field's name.

Note Note

Because a check box can display only a selected or an unselected state, a CheckBoxField object can be bound only to a field with a Boolean data type or a string that can be parsed by Parse.

You can display a caption next to each check box by setting the Text property. A CheckBoxField object is hidden in a data-bound control when the Visible property is set to false. To prevent the value of a field from being modified in edit mode, set the ReadOnly property to true. In data-bound controls that support inserting records (such as the DetailsView control), you can hide a CheckBoxField object in insert mode by setting the InsertVisible property to false.

You can customize the header and footer sections of a CheckBoxField object. To display a caption in the header or footer sections, set the HeaderText or FooterText properties, respectively. Instead of displaying text in the header section, you can display an image by setting the HeaderImageUrl property. The header section can be hidden in the CheckBoxField object by setting the ShowHeader property to false.

Note Note

Some data-bound controls (such as the GridView control) can show or hide only the entire header section of the control. These data-bound controls do not support the ShowHeader property for an individual bound field. To show or hide the entire header section of a data-bound control (if available), use the control's ShowHeader property.

You also can customize the appearance of the CheckBoxField object (font color, background color, and so on) by setting the style properties for the different parts of the field. The following table lists the different style properties.

Style property

Description

ControlStyle

The style settings for the child Web server controls of the CheckBoxField object.

FooterStyle

The style settings for the footer section of the CheckBoxField object.

HeaderStyle

The style settings for the header section of the CheckBoxField object.

ItemStyle

The style settings for the data items in the CheckBoxField object.

The following code example demonstrates how to use a CheckBoxField object in a GridView control to display a field from a Microsoft SQL Server data source with a Boolean data type.



<%@ Page language="C#" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>CheckBoxField Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">

      <h3>CheckBoxField Example</h3>

      <asp:gridview id="AuthorsGridView" 
        datasourceid="AuthorsSqlDataSource" 
        autogeneratecolumns="False"
        runat="server">

        <columns>

          <asp:boundfield datafield="au_lname"
            headertext="Last Name"/>

          <asp:checkboxfield datafield="contract"
            text="Contract"
            headertext="Contract"/>     

        </columns>

      </asp:gridview>

      <!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects -->
      <!-- to the Pubs sample database.                        -->
      <asp:sqldatasource id="AuthorsSqlDataSource"  
        selectcommand="SELECT [au_lname], [au_fname], [address], [city], [state], [zip], [contract] FROM [authors]"
        connectionstring="server=localhost;database=pubs;integrated security=SSPI"
        runat="server">
      </asp:sqldatasource>

    </form>
  </body>
</html>



.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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