Can .NET convert “Yes” & “No” to boolean without If?

Question

You would think there would be a way using DirectCast, TryCast, CType etc but all of them seem to choke on it e.g.:

CType(\"Yes\", Boolean)

Answer 1

Slightly off topic, but I needed once for one of my classes to display 'Yes/No' instead of 'True/False' in a property grid, so I've implemented YesNoBooleanConverter derived from BooleanConverter and decorating my property with _...