Cast nullable bool to bool

I have an object AlternateName.IsMaidenName

I w开发者_Python百科ant to cast that to a checkbox - IsMaidenName

It wont let me cast that as it says Cannot convert source type nullable to target type bool.

I've had this issue in other spots within our application but I wanted to throw it out there for a better way to handle these issues.

IsMaidenNameChecked = AlternateName.IsMaidenName;

It is quite logical that you cannot cast a nullable bool to a bool, since, what value should the bool have, when the nullable contains null ?

What I would do, is this:

IsMaidenNameChecked = AlternateName.IsMaidenName ?? false;

IsMaidenName.Checked = AlternateName.IsMaidenName.GetValueOrDefault();

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/72cec0e0.aspx

You probably want to do something like:

 IsMaidenNameChecked = AlternateName.IsMaidenName.GetValueOrDefault ();

See Nullable.GetValueOrDefault (), or you can use the overload that includes an explicit default.

Checkboxes and Nullable<bool> both have three states: "true", "false", and "missing".

But you're trying to store the value in an intermediate bool variable which has no way to handle "missing".

Try changing your bool variable to also be bool?.