WPF MVVM ICommnad with ListView

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Hello,

I have a question about ICommand and MVVM in WPF.

I have seen that the most common way to handle events is by using interface ICommand.

I understand that if I want to add a command to a button, I do something like this:
<Button Command="{MyCommand}" />

But I don't understand how to create a command to selectionchanged or something for a ListView?

Does anyone know any good examples out there, or could help me with some simple code?

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HI Again,
I have still problems with Icommand implementation of SelectionChanged at listView.
I found this post: http://blog.fossmo.net/post/How-to-create-an-attached-property-in-WPF-using-a-ComboBox.aspx[^] but I'm not sure what he meean by: "MyCommand can be a DelegateCommand from CAG." How could a CAG class look like?

Posted 7-Apr-11 21:12pm

Joachim Bjerke

Updated 14-Apr-11 21:42pm

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Dalek Dave 8-Apr-11 3:41am

Edited for Grammar and Spelling, but a nicely phrased question.

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Pete O'Hanlon · Answer 1 · 2011-04-17T10:26:00

First of all, ICommand is not the mechanism to support events. It is the mechanism by which you should perform command based functionality in WPF or Silverlight. The reason I say this is because it goes beyond what an event should do - with commanding infrastructure, you can also affect the UI by determining whether or not something can happen because the ICommand interface also supports a CanExecute method. When something supports ICommand, the UI will actually take this method into account, so that you can't press a button when CanExecute returns false.

As you are now aware, you can't bind an ICommand to a selection changed because it doesn't support command binding. At first, this would seem to be a real problem, but there are a number of solutions that support this. Probably the best implementation is the EventToCommand support in MVVM Light which you can find here[^].

Laurent demonstrates using this behavior here[^].

Wayne Gaylard · Answer 2 · 2011-04-07T22:55:00

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The best examples I have come across use Attached Properties. A good example of this can be found on Claus Conrads Blog WPF ListView MVVM and missing ICommand[^]. Attached properties can be used for all sorts of things and are definitely worth getting comfortable with.

Hope this helps

Posted 7-Apr-11 22:55pm

Wayne Gaylard

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Dave Kreskowiak 8-Feb-24 19:15pm

Are you bothering to look at the dates on the questions and posts you're replying to?

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look in the lounge... this "guy" has been nuked 3 times already. Does nothing else for the last couple of days.

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...and make it 4 times now.