C# adding radio buttons from within the application

slaitor · February 8th, 2013, 11:18 AM

I have this program that I have hundreds of radio buttons already on it, but I want to not have to change the code and recompile every time I want to add a new radio button.

For each radio button, I have several text boxes that are filled by set text files.

Code:

if (radioButton1.Checked == true)
{
 System.IO.StreamReader myFile =
 new System.IO.StreamReader("\\file.txt");
 string steps = myFile.ReadToEnd();
 textBox1.Text = steps;
 myFile.Close();

textBox1.Text = steps;
}

This of course is just one out of many different radio buttons, and many different text boxes per radio button, each text would need its own .txt file also.

So I can create a file easily from within the program. But I am wondering how I would set a menu option for adding new radio buttons, so the program can be changed though the program itself. Without having to add code and and recompile. I don't want to ask if this can be done, because I know there is a deffinate way, I just do not know what it is I am looking for to figure out how to do this.

How is it I will add a new radio button from within the application, and update the executable without compiling again?

tom103 · July 1st, 2013, 03:22 AM

I'm trying to do the same thing but with buttons instead of radio buttons. It's my understanding that you could actually eliminate a lot of your code with using an XML file. I'm still trying to learn the process but it would allow creation of these buttons on the fly through the program.