How to get checkbox value from FormCollection?

Question

I have a checkbox and button:

@using(Html.BeginForm())
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Answer 1

I had trouble getting this to work and this is the solution I came up with. I'm showing it with an html helper.

@Html.CheckBoxFor(model => model.showAll, new { @class = "form-control", Name = "showAll"})

This is where I kept falling down and the following works.

bool MyBoolValue= (collection["showAll"] ?? "").Equals("true", StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase);