TextBox.TextChanged & ICommandSource

Question

I am following the M-V-VM pattern for my WPF UI. I would like to hook up a command to the TextChanged event of a TextBox to a command that is in my ViewModel class. The only

Answer 1

Can you not just handle the TextChanged event and execute the command from there?

private void _textBox_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    MyCommand.Execute(null);
}

The alternative, as you say, is to create a TextBox that acts as a command source, but that does seem like overkill unless it's something you're planning on sharing and leveraging in many places.