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 the difference between Finalize() and Dispose() methods?

Dispose() is called when we want to realese an unmanaged resources of an object.
finalize() also called for same but it doesn't assure object is garbage collected.
The dispose() method is defined inside the interface IDisposable whereas, the method finalize() is defined inside the class object.
The main difference between dispose() and finalize() is that the method 
dispose() has to be explicitly invoked by the user whereas, the method 
finalize() is invoked by the garbage collector, just before the object is destroyed.

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