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Managing Multiple selection in View Model (.NET Metro Style Apps)

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29 Jun 2012CPOL3 min read 73.5K   3K   11  
This article provides Attached Behavior based approach to manage Multiple Selection in Collection Based UI control from the View Model. All the code in this article is strictly applicable to Win 8 metro style apps. Though the Behaviors can be easily adapted to WPF/Silverlight.
 
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