RadCombobox Value on Select vs Expand

[crazy05]

Hello,

 I have combobox with values 0, 1, 2. When user expand the combobox to select the value, I want to show Text of the value as  0 - Bad, 1 - Average, 2 - Good.

 But when user select the value, I want to display the value only.

 How can I do this ?

[Nasko]

Hi Ram,

In order to achieve the desired appearance of the Items first you need to bind the control's ItemSource to a collection of business objects. That object should contain information about what stands for each value - for example for 0 it stands "Bad". After that by creating an ItemTemplate you could create the desired appearance for the Items placed inside the DropDown portion of the control. On the other hand using the SelectionBoxTemplate you could achieve the desired appearance of the item into the selection box part of the control. For a more detailed information please, check the following articles from our help documentation:
http://docs.telerik.com/devtools/wpf/controls/radcombobox/features/populating-with-data-selectionbox

and about the ItemTemplate:
http://docs.telerik.com/devtools/wpf/controls/radcombobox/populating-with-data/binding-to-object#using-custom-itemtemplate

We have created a sample project that demonstrates the described above approach and you you could run and evaluate it.

Hopes this helps.  

Regards,
Nasko
Telerik

[crazy05]

Nice! It worked. Thanks!