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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 (...
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What is IoC Container?

  IoC Container IoC Container is a framework for implementing automatic dependency injection . before I explain IoC Container first lets know what is  dependency injection Dependency Injection It is a design pattern used to implement IoC. It allows the creation of dependent objects outside of a class and provides those objects to a class through different ways.  The Dependency Injection pattern involves three things which are client, service and the injector so, there will be  three  types of classes  involves in this process . Client Class : The client class is a class which depends on the service class. Service Class : The service class is a class that provides service to the client class. Injector Class : The injector class injects the service class object into the client class. The injector class injects dependencies in three ways: through a constructor, or through a property, or through a method. so, there are three types of Dependenc...
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How to count the no. of times the given character in second TextBox appears in First Textbox and add the index and matched character to ListBox

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MainWindow  <Window x:Class="WPFWorldTutorial.Views.MainWindow"         xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"         xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"         xmlns:prism="http://prismlibrary.com/"         prism:ViewModelLocator.AutoWireViewModel="True">     <Grid>         <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">             <TextBox Text="{Binding Text}" Height="25" Margin="5"/>             <TextBox Text="{Binding CharToMatch}" Height="25" Margin="5"/>             <Button Content="Match" Command="{Binding MatchCharCommand}" Width="100" Margin="5"/>             <ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding MatchedInfo}">                 <ListB...
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How to create Expandable TextBox in Wpf

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Step 1: Right click on project Step 2: Click on Add and select New Item Step 3: Search for Custom Control Step 4: Select Custom Control(WPF) Step 5: Write ExpandableTextBox in Name and click on Add It will create one class with the Name ExpandableTextBox with following code: namespace CustomControl.Controls { public class ExpandableTextBox : Control { static ExpandableTextBox() { DefaultStyleKeyProperty.OverrideMetadata(typeof(ExpandableTextBox), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(typeof(ExpandableTextBox))); } } } It will also create a folder called Themes inside this folder it will create ResourceDictionary with the Name Generic with folowing code: Generic.xaml <ResourceDictionary xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Wpf" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"> <Style TargetType="{x:Type local:ExpandableTextBox...
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How to Import/Export data of DataGrid from/to CSV file in wpf using MVVM

In this post i will explain how to Import/Export data of DataGrid from/to CSV file in wpf using MVVM To Import CSV to DataGrid i have created method called LoadCSV() which will load CSV data and update the DataGrid  private void LoadCSV()         {             LstEmployees.AddRange(File.ReadAllLines("csvFilePath")                                          .Skip(1)                                          .Select(v => CsvToEmployees(v))                                          .ToList());         }          In LoadCSV() method i am first reading the CSV using File cla...
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Multiple ways to handle Checked/Unchecked event in wpf using MVVM

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In this post i am trying to explain multiple way to handle Checked/Unchecked event in wpf using MVVM First let's create a view which contains multiple CheckBox.  All CheckBox will handle the Checked/Unchecked event differently.  CheckBoxEx.xaml <Window x:Class="PrismApp.Views.CheckBoxEx"              xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"              xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"              xmlns:prism="http://prismlibrary.com/"              prism:ViewModelLocator.AutoWireViewModel="True">     <StackPanel >         <CheckBox Content="Bind Command by passing CheckBox as CommandParameter but set command parameter type is object" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center"  Name="chkObj"            ...
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