Toggle Button in .NET

Ever wondered how to create a button which toggles it’s state in C# windows Forms? It used to exist in VB6 / Office development as a ToggleButton, but cannot easily be found in C#

It turns out you need to use the System.Windows.Forms.Checkbox control but set its Appearance property to ‘Button’. Usually you would just set this in the IDE but alternatively heres the code …

CheckBox checkBox1 = new System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox();
checkBox1.Appearance = System.Windows.Forms.Appearance.Button;