To illustrate the mechanics of Attached Behaviors, a topic that I had been reviewing with my customer, I decided to implement a working RadioButtonGroup as one. Simply use the attached property in place of RadioButton.GroupName, and the behavior takes care of the rest.

<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding DataCollection}">
  <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
    <ItemsPanelTemplate>
      <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" />
    </ItemsPanelTemplate>
  </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
  <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
    <DataTemplate>
      <RadioButton Content="{Binding Name}"
                   b:RadioButtonGroup.Name="1"/>
    </DataTemplate>
  </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>

One interesting detail about my implementation: It can be used with ToggleButtons to achieve RadioButton-like behavior.

The solution source is available here. Feedback welcome.

Side note: Using reflector, I noticed that although RadioButton has all the necessary plumbing to group arbitrary radio buttons (and that code is remarkably similar to how a standard attachedbehavior is implemented), it relied on the “Logical Tree”, FrameworkElement.Parent, to scope group names to a common root node. One side effect of using ItemsControl is that the ContentPresenters used to show an item’s DataTemplate are severed from their parents. Parent is always null. This attached behavior doesn’t use that, and in fact it does not scope the group Names at all, so be sure to choose unique names.

Enjoy!