Question

Originally I had a TemplateField with a CheckBox in it but I couldn’t set the checkbox Value using

Checked='<%# (bool)Bind("FieldName")  %>

or

Checked='<%# (bool)Eval("FieldName")  %>

It kept throwing an invalid cast exception. The field in the database is a bit field set to 1 or 0.

I tried switching to a checkbox field but because my update code is in the codebehind instead of using the updatecommand parameters in a datasource I can’t seem to retrieve the value from the CheckBoxField to pass to my business logic.

Can any one point me on how to retrieve the value from the CheckBoxfield in a detailsview?

Answer 1

You can’t cast from int to bool. Try Convert.ToBoolean(Eval("FieldName")) Not sure if you can use Eval like that though, but that’s the general idea.