MVC UI for ASP.NET CheckboxFor Issue

Question

I have a big problem with MVC Telerik UI for ASP.NET I am trying to get a checkbox up for a boolean field. I know we have two input fields to return the value false when the box is not touched. When I do not touch the CBox, I get the value 'false' as expected. When I check the box, I get false too because the CBOx is returning a string = "true,false" which makes it impossible to convert directly to bool.

View

public class role
{
    public string role_name { get; set; }
    public bool add_school { get; set; }
}

Controller

    public ActionResult test()
    {
        return View();
    }

    [HttpPost]
    public async Task<ActionResult> test(Models.role role)
    {
        var z = Request["cb_addschool"];
        var x = 1;
        return RedirectToAction("Index");
    }

View

    @model Models.role

    @using (Html.BeginForm("test", "Home", FormMethod.Post, new { @class = "form-horizontal", role = "form" }))
    {
        @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
        <h2>Add a New Role</h2>
        <hr />
        @Html.ValidationSummary("", new { @class = "text-danger" })

        <div class="form-group">
            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.role_name, new { @class = "col-md-1 control-label" })
            <div class="col-md-10">
                @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.role_name, new { @class = "form-control form-control-big" })
            </div>
        </div>

        <div class="form-group">
        @Html.Kendo().CheckBoxFor(m=>m.add_school).Name("cb_addschool").Label("Add School")
        </div>

        <div class="form-group">
            <div class="col-md-offset-3 col-md-9">
                <input type="submit" class="btn btn-login" value="Register" />
            </div>
        </div>
    }

Please, any help?

Answer 1

Remove this code from your action method:

var z = Request["cb_addschool"];

You have this value inside your role model. So this is pointless in this case.

Than remove this attribute from Kendo CheckBoxFor:

.Name("cb_addschool")

You don't have to need that (the property will be bound correctly without that).

Small hint: if you are using Kendo - use the Kendo().TextBoxFor method instead of @Html.TextBoxFor (or add "k-textbox" class to your TextBoxFor - it will use Kendo CSS styles).

Here is an example:

@(Html.Kendo().TextBoxFor(model => model.role_name)
.HtmlAttributes(new { placeholder = "Select role", @class = "form-control form-control-big" })
)