Keyboard events in a WPF MVVM application?

Question

How can I handle the Keyboard.KeyDown event without using code-behind? We are trying to use the MVVM pattern and avoid writing an event handler in code-behind file.

Answer 1

To bring an updated answer, the .net 4.0 framework enables you to do this nicely by letting you bind a KeyBinding Command to a command in a viewmodel.

So... If you wanted to listen for the Enter key, you'd do something like this: