Cancel combobox selection in WPF with MVVM

Question

I\'ve got a combobox in my WPF application:

Answer 1

I did it in a similar way to what splintor has above.

Your view:

Below is the code for the event handler "ComboBox_SelectionChanged" from the code file behind the view. For example, if you view is myview.xaml, the code file name for this event handler should be myview.xaml.cs

private int previousSelection = 0; //Give it a default selection value

private bool promptUser true; //to be replaced with your own property which will indicates whether you want to show the messagebox or not.

private void ComboBox_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            ComboBox comboBox = (ComboBox) sender;
            BindingExpression be = comboBox.GetBindingExpression(ComboBox.SelectedValueProperty);

            if (comboBox.SelectedValue != null && comboBox.SelectedIndex != previousSelection)
            {
                if (promptUser) //if you want to show the messagebox..
                {
                    string msg = "Click Yes to leave previous selection, click No to stay with your selection.";
                    if (MessageBox.Show(msg, "Confirm", MessageBoxButton.YesNo, MessageBoxImage.Question) == MessageBoxResult.Yes) //User want to go with the newest selection
                    {

                        be.UpdateSource(); //Update the property,so your ViewModel will continue to do something
                        previousSelection = (int)comboBox.SelectedIndex;  
                    }
                    else //User have clicked No to cancel the selection
                    {
                        comboBox.SelectedIndex = previousSelection; //roll back the combobox's selection to previous one
                    }
                }
                else //if don't want to show the messagebox, then you just have to update the property as normal.
                {
                    be.UpdateSource();
                    previousSelection = (int)comboBox.SelectedIndex;
                }
            }
        }