Thomas Levesque • 3/17/2009

[WPF] Using InputBindings with the MVVM pattern

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This technical article addresses a common problem in WPF MVVM development: binding keyboard or mouse input gestures directly to ViewModel commands in XAML. It explains why the intuitive approach fails and presents a custom markup extension solution that uses reflection to access the DataContext, enabling clean XAML-based command binding for InputBindings.

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