How do I use Html.EditorFor to render radio buttons in MVC3?

Question

Here\'s my model:

[Required]
[Display(Name = "I\'m a:")]
public bool Sex { get; set; }

And my editor template:

Answer 1

Create an enum like so:

 public enum Gender
 {
     Male = 1,
     Female = 2
 }

I'd alter your model slightly like so:

 public Gender Sex { get; set; }

And then in your view you would do this:

 Html.EditorFor(x => x.RegisterModel.Sex);

Then you would have an EditorTemplate here:

 ~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/Gender.cshtml

Which would have content like so:

@model EditorTemplate.Models.Gender // switch to your namespace

@Html.LabelFor(x => x, "Male")
@if(Model == EditorTemplate.Models.Gender.Male)
{
    @Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x, (int)EditorTemplate.Models.Gender.Male, new { @checked = "checked" });
}
else
{
    @Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x, (int)EditorTemplate.Models.Gender.Male);
}

@Html.LabelFor(x => x, "Female")
@if(Model == EditorTemplate.Models.Gender.Female)
{
    @Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x, (int)EditorTemplate.Models.Gender.Female, new { @checked = "checked" });
}
else
{
    @Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x, (int)EditorTemplate.Models.Gender.Female);
}

So I modeled this in Visual Studio, and this works as expected. Try it out.