Binding RadioButtons with Gender Property in WPF Using Value Converter

Many WPF developers face a common problem when working with RadioButtons . They try to bind RadioButtons with a Gender property, but the binding does not work as expected . Why does this happen? Because RadioButtons work with true/false values , but in real applications, Gender is stored as meaningful values like: Male Female So the big question is: How do we connect a true/false UI control with a Male/Female data value? Why RadioButton Binding Fails A RadioButton uses the IsChecked property, and this property accepts only: true false But your Gender property is usually: a string ( "Male" , "Female" ) or an enum So the UI value and the data value are different types . This mismatch is the root cause of the problem. The Solution: Value Converter WPF provides a powerful feature called a Value Converter . What is a Value Converter? A Value Converter converts one value type into another. In our case: Convert Gender (...

What is Sealed class?

Sealed class is a class that prevents the class from being inherited by other class.Sealed class can have Sealed Methods.Sealed method can't be override.To create a Sealed class we need to add Sealed modifier before class keywords.
eg.
sealed class MySealedClass
{
}
Sealed class can be a derived class but can't be a base class.A sealed class cannot be an abstract class. Because abstract class has to provide functionality and here we are restricting it to inherit. One of the best usage of sealed classes is when you have a class with static members.

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