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 (...

How to create Own Semaphore?


 class CustomSemaphore
    {
        private Mutex[] arrMutex;

        // place holder to store thread to mutex mapping
        private Thread[] arrthread;

        // number of threads allowed to access the resources
        private int threadLimit;

        // contructor creates the mutexes
        public CustomSemaphore(int threadLimit)
        {
            this.threadLimit = threadLimit;
            arrMutex = new Mutex[this.threadLimit];
            arrthread = new Thread[this.threadLimit];
            for (int i = 0; i < this.threadLimit; i++)
            {
                arrMutex[i] = new Mutex();
                arrthread[i] = null;
            }
        }
        public int Wait()
        {
            int index = WaitHandle.WaitAny(arrMutex);
            if (index != WaitHandle.WaitTimeout)
                arrthread[index] = Thread.CurrentThread;
            return index;
        }
        public void Release()
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < threadLimit; i++)
            {
                if (arrthread[i] == Thread.CurrentThread)
                {
                    arrMutex[i].ReleaseMutex();
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
    }

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