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

I looked into that issue a few months ago, and I wrote a markup extension that does the trick. It can be used like a regular binding :

The full source code for this extension can be found here :

http://www.thomaslevesque.com/2009/03/17/wpf-using-inputbindings-with-the-mvvm-pattern/

Please be aware that this workaround is probably not very "clean", because it uses some private classes and fields through reflection...