Assigning a ValueList to WinOptionSet

You may want to display text to the user in an Option Set but use a numeric or other value when checking or saving the value. You can do this through the use of ValueLists by creating a ValueList and assigning it to the WinOptionSet™ control. You must do this through code at run time.

The following code illustrates how to do this.

In Visual Basic:

Imports Infragistics.Win
...
Private Sub AssigningaValueListtoanWinOptionSet_Load( _
  ByVal sender As System.Object, _
  ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
	' Create a new Valuelist
	Dim vList As New ValueList()
	' Add items using the add method
	' Add(DataValue, displayText)
	vList.ValueListItems.Add("Default", "Default")
	vList.ValueListItems.Add("Office2000", "Office 2000")
	vList.ValueListItems.Add("OfficeXP", "Office XP")
	vList.ValueListItems.Add("Office2003", "Office 2003")
	vList.ValueListItems.Add("VisualStudio2005", "Visual Studio 2005")
	vList.ValueListItems.Add("Standard", "Standard")
	vList.ValueListItems.Add("Office2007", "Office 2007")
	' Set the valuelist for the optionset
	Me.UltraOptionSet1.ValueList = vList
End Sub

In C#:

using Infragistics.Win;
...
private void AssigningaValueListtoaWinOptionSet_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
	// Create a new Valuelist
	ValueList vList = new ValueList();
	// Add items using the add method
	// Add(DataValue, displayText)
	vList.ValueListItems.Add("Default", "Default");
	vList.ValueListItems.Add("Office2000", "Office 2000");
	vList.ValueListItems.Add("OfficeXP", "Office XP");
	vList.ValueListItems.Add("Office2003", "Office 2003");
	vList.ValueListItems.Add("VisualStudio2005", "Visual Studio 2005");
	vList.ValueListItems.Add("Standard", "Standard");
	vList.ValueListItems.Add("Office2007", "Office 2007");
	// Set the valuelist for the optionset
	this.ultraOptionSet1.ValueList = vList;
}

This will create a ValueList that looks like this:

DataValue	DisplayedText
Default	Default
Office2000	Office 2000
OfficeXP	Office XP
Office2003	Office 2003
VisualStudio2005	Visual Studio 2005
Standard	Standard
Office2007	Office 2007

When you check the value property of the OptionSet it will return the Data Value of what the user has selected in the OptionSet.

resulting winoptionset after assign valuelistitems to it

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Assigning a ValueList to WinOptionSet