RadControls for WinForms

 

RadGroupBox control is a group box control with advanced styling options. The primarily usage of this control is to hold a single radio buttons group. The control does not support scrolling which is however supported by RadPanel. The control never gets focus being a container for other controls which can get focus. 

You need to include Telerik.WinControls.UI namespace in your application.

Introduction To Styling

The most important RadGroupBox layout styling options include the following:

  • GroupBoxStyle - there are two defined styles: Standard and Office. The styles are defined in RadGroupBoxStyle enumeration.  
  • HeaderAlignment - header alignment options are defined in HeaderAlignment enumeration: Near, Center, and Far.
  • HeaderPosition - header position options are defined in HeaderPosition enumeration: Top, Left, Bottom, and Right.
  • HeaderMargin - defines the header margin. 
  • FooterVisibility - defines the footer visibility. Its default value is Collapsed.

The most important Headerand Footer styling options include the following ones:

  • HeaderImageAlignment
  • FooterImageAlignment
  • HeaderText
  • FooterText
  • HeaderTextAlignment
  • FooterTextAlignment
  • HeaderTextImageRelation
  • FooterTextImageRelation

Please refer to ImageAndTextLayoutPanel documentation section about further details of those properties.

All these properties can be set in Visual Style Builder. Furthermore, the control can be customized on a very fine-grained level using the Visual Style Builder to set any other property in the control hierarchy. Please refer to RadGroupBox TPF structure section for more details.