Can .NET convert “Yes” & “No” to boolean without If?

Question

You would think there would be a way using DirectCast, TryCast, CType etc but all of them seem to choke on it e.g.:

CType(\"Yes\", Boolean)

Answer 1

I like the answer that @thelost posted, but I'm reading values from an ADO.Net DataTable and the casing of the string in the DataTable can vary.

The value I need to get as a boolean is in a DataTable named childAccounts in a column named Trades.

I implemented a solution like this:

bool tradeFlag = childAccounts["Trade"].ToString().Equals("yes", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase);