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Handling a Window's Closed and Closing events in the View-Model

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15 Apr 2010CPOL2 min read 183.7K   3.3K   41  
This article discusses an attached behavior that lets you handle the View Window's Closed and Closing events via commands in the View-Model
// <copyright file="DelegateCommand.cs" company="Nish Sivakumar">
// Copyright (c) Nish Sivakumar. All rights reserved.
// </copyright>

namespace NS.MVVM
{
    using System;
    using System.ComponentModel;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Windows.Input;

    /// <summary>
    /// Initializes a new instance of the DelegateCommand class.
    /// </summary>
    public class DelegateCommand : ICommand
    {
        private readonly Action executeMethod;

        private readonly Func<bool> canExecuteMethod;

        public DelegateCommand(Action executeMethod)
            : this(executeMethod, null)
        {
        }

        public DelegateCommand(Action executeMethod, Func<bool> canExecuteMethod)
        {
            this.executeMethod = executeMethod;
            this.canExecuteMethod = canExecuteMethod;
        }

        public bool CanExecute(object parameter)
        {
            return this.canExecuteMethod != null ? this.canExecuteMethod() : true;
        }

        public void Execute(object parameter)
        {
            if (this.executeMethod != null)
            {
                this.executeMethod();
            }
        }

        public event EventHandler CanExecuteChanged
        {
            add
            {
                CommandManager.RequerySuggested += value;
            }

            remove
            {
                CommandManager.RequerySuggested -= value;
            }
        }
    }
}

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Nish Nishant is a technology enthusiast from Columbus, Ohio. He has over 20 years of software industry experience in various roles including Chief Technology Officer, Senior Solution Architect, Lead Software Architect, Principal Software Engineer, and Engineering/Architecture Team Leader. Nish is a 14-time recipient of the Microsoft Visual C++ MVP Award.

Nish authored C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications in 2005, and co-authored Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework for Addison Wesley in 2003. In addition, he has over 140 published technology articles on CodeProject.com and another 250+ blog articles on his WordPress blog. Nish is experienced in technology leadership, solution architecture, software architecture, cloud development (AWS and Azure), REST services, software engineering best practices, CI/CD, mentoring, and directing all stages of software development.

Nish's Technology Blog : voidnish.wordpress.com

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