Question

I am hoping for some help. I have a string value – will be coming back as Y or N. On a page I would like to convert this and display it as a readonly checkbox on the page.

I have tried

@Html.CheckboxFor( model => Convert.ToBoolean(MyString)) 

but it does not like that. Has anyone got any ideas how I can acheive this. Do I need to do a convert to bool on my string in my c# controller page?

Answer 1

Create a field on your Model that does the conversion. CheckBoxFor expects an Expression<Func<TModel, Boolean>> because it needs to know property name based on expression.