You can put both means of entry (CheckBoxes/TextBox) in the same position by putting them both in a Panel (say, StackPanel) and setting the Visibility of either the set of CheckBoxes or TextBox to Collapsed.
Use ContentControl as a placeholder. The you can set ContentControl. Content programatically.
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