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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 (...

Leetcode - 125. Valid Palindrome

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 Problem statement: A phrase is a   palindrome   if, after converting all uppercase letters into lowercase letters and removing all non-alphanumeric characters, it reads the same forward and backward. Alphanumeric characters include letters and numbers. Given a string  s , return  true   if it is a  palindrome , or  false  otherwise . Solution: Problem says, First convert all  uppercase letters into lowercase letters. Remove all non-alphanumeric characters. For first part, I will use ToLower() method of string class. this method will convert all the  uppercase letters into lowercase letters. For the second part, I will use Regex Replace method to remove all  non-alphanumeric characters.  public bool IsPalindrome(string s)   {         /*here i am checking if string is null or empty if so then it will be always                   ...