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• Igor

  Posted on Feb 6, 2012 (permalink)

  Hello,
  
  In order to change the border color of the TextBox i use:
  textBox1.TextBoxElement.Border.ForeColor = Color.Red;
  How can i achieve this using data binding?
  

  Looking forward to your reply.      
  

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• Boryana Boryana

  Posted on Feb 7, 2012 (permalink)

  Hi Igor,
  
  Thank you for writing.
  
  You can use the simple binding mechanism to bind the ForeColor property to the Text property of another control, for example:
  

  RadTextBox textBox1 = new RadTextBox();

  RadTextBox textBox2 = new RadTextBox();

  textBox1.DataBindings.Add("Text", textBox2.TextBoxElement.Border, "ForeColor", true, DataSourceUpdateMode.OnPropertyChanged);

  
  I hope this helps. Feel free to ask if you have any additional questions.  
  
  Kind regards,
  Juliana
  the Telerik team

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• Boryana Boryana

  Posted on Feb 8, 2012 (permalink)

  Hi Igor,
  
  Please consider the following approach:
  

  public partial class Form1 : Form

  {

      private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

      {

          this.myTextBox1.DataBindings.Add("BorderColor", MyObj, "Color");

      }

  }

   

  public class MyTextBox : RadTextBox

  {

      public Color BorderColor

      {

          get

          {

              return this.TextBoxElement.Border.ForeColor;

          }

          set

          {

              this.TextBoxElement.Border.ForeColor = value;

              OnNotifyPropertyChanged("BorderColor");

          }

      }

   

      public override string ThemeClassName

      {

          get

          {

              return typeof(RadTextBox).FullName;

          }

      }

  }

  
  I hope this is the solution you are looking for. Let me know if you have further questions.
  
  Kind regards,
  Boryana
  the Telerik team

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