Read-Write property with Value conversion

[Chicagoan2016]

Hello fellow Csla developers,
We have a small app where we have a couple of radio buttons for something like gender, one is for 'male' and the other for 'female'. (not exactly our use-case but just using it as an example). The values for gender are coming from a lookup table with rows as 'Male' and 'Female'.

One suggestion was to use two csla read-write properties

1. IsMale
2. IsFemale
   but I have never tried my versions of SetPropertyConvert and GetPropertyConvert.

I guess my question is about writing our custom SetPropertyConvert and GetPropertyConvert

Kind Regards

[rockfordlhotka]

Sometimes the answer is to use a viewmodel (or equivalent UI framework things like value converters) to do this work. The business domain types should reflect the user workflow and thus are close to the needs of the UI, but sometimes there does need to be some presentation layer code to make things work for a specific UI design requirement that isn't really a business requirement.

[Chicagoan2016]

@rockfordlhotka Thank you Sir.

Somewhat related to the above question, if we have a string property that is used to interact with the private SmartDate instance's Text property, where should we handle the exception thrown by SetPropertyConvert ?

Kind Regards