"Paul Bryant" <paul@NO_SP_AMgap66.com> wrote in message
news:3f8aaa25$0$10971$fa0fcedb@lovejoy.zen.co.uk...
> Having spent several fruitless hours trying to set the value of checkboxes
> in a checkboxlist control, and then another hour or two searching google
> discovering many other people with the same problem (but no working
> solutions) I finally came across a reference to a post in this group from
a
> MS support pro saying this is not possible. OK, the control inherits this
> member from ListControl, but please please please could ms update the
> checkboxlist documentation
>
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemWebUIWebContr
> olsCheckBoxListMembersTopic.asp?frame=true) to point this out and save
other
> developers from the same frustration? And sort it out in the next SP? This
> would seem like such an obvious thing to want...
>
> I can use a multiple select listbox as a (less intuitive) workaround, or
> create a repeater that looks like a checkboxlist, but I mean, come on -
> please point out that DataValueField has NO EFFECT on checkboxlists.
>
> Unless someone knows different?...
>
> Yours thoroughly frustrated,
>
> Paul Bryant
>
>