How to Display "Yes" or "No" Instead of Checkbox while binding Boolean value with GridView ?

If you are binding some data source in grid view which having any field type of Boolean then Grid View Rendered it as “Checkbox” . But sometime we may required to display either Yes/ No or “1/0” instead of Checked/ Unchecked Text Box. Here is an quick tip which described how you can override the checkbox to your required value in GridView RowDataBound events.

Let’s consider you have a simple class “Student” with some student records.

public class Student
{
    public int Roll { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public bool Status { get; set; }
}
 
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   List<Student> students = new List<Student>();
   students.Add(new Student { Roll = 1, Name = "Abhijit", Status=true});
   students.Add(new Student {Roll=2,Name="Manish",Status=false});
   students.Add(new Student { Roll = 3, Name = "Atul", Status = true });
   GridView2.DataSource = students;
   GridView2.DataBind();
}

Now if you run the application you will get below out put Which is the default behavior of GridView

Now Change the binding during on RowDataBound of GridView

/// <summary>
  /// Handles the RowDataBound event of the GridView2 control.
  /// </summary>
  /// <param name="sender">The source of the event.</param>
  /// <param name="e">The <see cref="System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs"/> instance containing the event data.</param>
  protected void GridView2_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
  {
      if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
      {
          Student s = (Student)e.Row.DataItem;
          if (s.Status == true)
          {
              e.Row.Cells[2].Text = "1";
          }
          else
          {
              e.Row.Cells[2].Text = "0";
          }
      }
  }