How do you handle a ComboBox SelectionChanged in MVVM?

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Edward Tanguay picture Edward Tanguay · Jun 4, 2009 · Viewed 58.6k times · Source

For those doing pure MVVM, how do you handle a ComboBox SelectionChanged event without reverting to code behind?

I tried e.g. AttachedBehaviors but Event="SelectedChanged" is not supported:

<ComboBox>
    <ComboBoxItem Content="Test1">
        <c:CommandBehaviorCollection.Behaviors>
            <c:BehaviorBinding Event="SelectionChanged" 
                               Command="{Binding SelectedChanged}"
                               CommandParameter="MainBorder123"/>
        </c:CommandBehaviorCollection.Behaviors>
    </ComboBoxItem>
    <ComboBoxItem Content="Test2"/>
    <ComboBoxItem Content="Test3"/>
</ComboBox>

Answer

fabien picture fabien · Apr 28, 2011

This post is quite old, but since I got the same issue. Here is how I solved it (using framework 4.0) : the idea is to use System.Windows.Interactivity.

In the XAML :

<ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding Items}">
    <i:Interaction.Triggers>
        <i:EventTrigger EventName="SelectionChanged">
            <i:InvokeCommandAction Command="{Binding SelectionChangedCommand}"/>
        </i:EventTrigger>
    </i:Interaction.Triggers>
</ComboBox>

Then you just need to implement the SelectionChangedCommand in your viewmodel.

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