Data binding to SelectedItem in a WPF Treeview

Question

How can I retrieve the item that is selected in a WPF-treeview? I want to do this in XAML, because I want to bind it.

You might think that it is SelectedItem

Answer 1

I propose this solution (which I consider the easiest and memory leaks free) which works perfectly for updating the ViewModel's selected item from the View's selected item.

Please note that changing the selected item from the ViewModel won't update the selected item of the View.

public class TreeViewEx : TreeView
{
    public static readonly DependencyProperty SelectedItemExProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("SelectedItemEx", typeof(object), typeof(TreeViewEx), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(default(object))
    {
        BindsTwoWayByDefault = true // Required in order to avoid setting the "BindingMode" from the XAML
    });

    public object SelectedItemEx
    {
        get => GetValue(SelectedItemExProperty);
        set => SetValue(SelectedItemExProperty, value);
    }

    protected override void OnSelectedItemChanged(RoutedPropertyChangedEventArgs