Fighting SelectList in ASP.NET MVC 2

Question

I have a model that looks something like this:

public class SampleModel
{
    public static SampleModel Create()
    {
        return new SampleModel
        {
            Boolean = true,
            // set several more properties...
            Colors = new SelectList(new[] { "Red", "Green", "Blue" }, "Green")
        };
    }

    public bool Boolean { get; set; }
    // define several more properties...
    public SelectList Colors { get; set; }
}

I let ASP.NET MVC automatically align properties using Html.DisplayForModel()for my presentation of information and Html.EditorForModel()for my kind of editing.

Results:

• Editing works great. Colorsappears as a menu with three items (red, green, and blue), and green is selected by default.

• However, to represent the information, I get "False True False", which is apparently a list of values IsSelectedfor each menu item. I don’t want that. I would like it to just display Green.

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