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Conditional Attributes - Asp.Net MVC View

I have a requirement to add conditional disabled and class attributes to a dropdown form element. I have the following, however, it does not write any of the attributes in any state. Is there any way to get around this.

<%=  Html.DropDownList("--Choose Make--", "models", ViewData["model_disabled"] == "false" ? new { @disabled = "disabled", @class = "test" } : null)%>
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The problem is this:

ViewData["model_disabled"] == "false"

Returning from ViewData [] is an object. Calling == on two objects compares their id (i.e. are they the same instance of an object), not their equality (i.e., are they strings of the same value).

You can try instead:

((string)ViewData["model_disabled"]) == "false"


Edit:

With MvcContrib available extended syntax to cleaner syntax:

ViewData.Get<string>("model_disabled") == "false"

While this is a little cleaner, you will also notice it for a little longer. :-P

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