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i'm having trouble when rendering text box using @html.textboxfor custom type i've created. custom type looks this:

public class encrypted<t> {     private readonly lazy<t> _decrypted;     private readonly lazy<string> _encrypted;      public static implicit operator encrypted<t>(t value)     {         return new encrypted<t>(value);     }      public static implicit operator string(encrypted<t> value)     {         return value._encrypted.value;     }      ... } 

then on model, have:

public class examplemodel {     public encrypted<string> name { get; set; } } 

if manually populate value in controller action:

public actionresult index() {     var model = new examplemodel     {         name = "example name";     };     return view(model); } 

then on view have standard @html.textboxfor(m => m.name). however, when renders, value of text box gets set to: services.encrypted`1[system.string]`

presumably because i'm using custom type , compiler doesn't know how convert type string value.

i've tried using custom typeconverter:

public override bool canconvertto(itypedescriptorcontext context, type destinationtype) {     return destinationtype == typeof(string); }  public override object convertto(itypedescriptorcontext context, system.globalization.cultureinfo culture, object value, type destinationtype) {     if (destinationtype == typeof(string))     {         var encrypted = value iencrypted;         if (encrypted != null)         {             return encrypted.decryptedvalue();         }     }      return null; } 

then on encrypted model added:

[typeconverter(typeof(encryptedtypeconveter))] 

however doesn't seem using custom typeconverter. know how can resolve this?

you need override tostring().