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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 (...

Building Your First WPF Application with C#

Click on File > New > Project menu option one dialog box will be displayed. here in left panel you have to choose c#. in middle panel you have to choose WPF Application. Give the project a name in the name field and click the OK button. Bydefault two files are created,one is the XAML file which is Mainwindiw.xaml and the other is the CS file which is Mainwindow.cs. In mainwindow.xaml, you will see two sub-windows, one is the design window and the other one is the source window. In WPF application, there are two ways to design an UI for your application. One is to simply drag and drop UI elements from the toolbox to the Design Window. The second way is to design your UI by writing XAML tags . In mainwindow.xaml file, the following XAML tags are written by default. <Window x: Class="ProjectName.MainWindow" xmlns = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winf...