RadioButtonFor not selecting value in editor templates

Question

I have the following model:

public class Person
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Gender { get; set; }
}

I want the

Answer 1

I took this idea and expanded on it. I pass a List> to my editor template as added ViewData that I use to create the radio buttons. My template looks like this

@model string
@{
    var buttons = (List>)ViewData["Buttons"];
}
@foreach (var button in buttons) {
    
        @Html.RadioButton(Html.NameForModel().ToHtmlString(), Model, Model == button["Value"], new { id = Html.IdForModel() }) @button["Label"]
    
}

this is what I'm passing to my EditorFor as additional ViewData

new { Buttons = new List> { new Dictionary { { "Label", "Commercial" }, { "Value", "Y" } }, new Dictionary { { "Label", "Residential" }, { "Value", "N" } } } }

Granted I could add this to a ViewModel type and pass that to the View from my controller, however it was quicker to do it in the cshtml file.