Introduction

This article shows how to use a CheckBoxFor helper in MVC applications.

Create an ASP.Net Web Application as in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Web application

Choose MVC template as in Figure 2.

Figure 2: MVC template

Add an Employee Controller as in Figures 3, 4 and 5.

Figure 3: Add controller

Figure 4: MVC controller - empty

Figure 5: EmployeeController

EmployeeController.cs

  1. using CheckBoxForMVC_App.Models;
  2. using System;
  3. using System.Collections.Generic;
  4. using System.Linq;
  5. using System.Web;
  6. using System.Web.Mvc;
  8. namespace CheckBoxForMVC_App.Controllers
  9. {
  10. public class EmployeeController : Controller
  11. {
  12. EmployeeEntities db = new EmployeeEntities();
  13. //
  14. // GET: /Employee/
  15. public ActionResult Index()
  16. {
  17. return View(db.Departments.ToList());
  18. }
  19. }
  20. }
Set up Entity Framework as in Figures 6, 7 and 8.

Figure 6: Add an ADO.Net Entity Framework.

Figure 7: Connection setting.

Figure 8: Select tables

Add the View as in Figures 9 and 10.

Figure 9: Add View

Figure 10: Index View

Index.cshtml

  1. @model IEnumerable<CheckBoxForMVC_App.Models.Department>
  3. @{
  4. ViewBag.Title = "Index";
  5. }
  7. <h2>Index</h2>
  9. @foreach (var item in Model)
  10. {
  11. @Html.CheckBoxFor(model => item.IsSelected)@item.DepartmentName
  12. <br />
  13. }
The output of the application is as in the following.

Figure 11: Index

Summary

In this article we saw how to use a CheckBoxFor helper in MVC applications. Happy coding!