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 (...

Different type of TextBox available in MahApp.Metro


  1.   <TextBox Text="Standared textBox" Width="200" Margin="5" />
  2.   <TextBox metro:TextBoxHelper.ClearTextButton="True"
           Text="TextBox With Clear Button"    Width="200" Margin="5"/>
  3.   <TextBox Style="{StaticResource SearchMetroTextBox}" Width="200"                                           Margin="5"  Text="TextBox With Search Button" />
 4.    <TextBox Text="TextBox with select all text on focus" Width="200" Margin="5"
        metro:TextBoxHelper.SelectAllOnFocus="True"/>
 5.   <TextBox Text="TextBox Watermark" Width="200" Margin="5"
        metro:TextBoxHelper.Watermark="Type something"/>


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