binding a command inside a listbox item to a property on the viewmodel parent

Question

I\'ve been working on this for about an hour and looked at all related SO questions.

My problem is very simple:

I have HomePageVieModel:

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Answer 1

Well, it's a little bit late, I know. But I have only recently faced the same problem. Due to architectural reasons I decided to use a static viewmodel locator instead of the dataContextSpy.

The static viewmodel locator instantiates the view model:

namespace MyNamespace
{
    public static class ViewModelLocator
    {
        private static MyViewModelType myViewModel = new MyViewModelType();
        public static MyViewModelType MyViewModel 
        {
            get
            {
                return myViewModel ;
            }
        }
    }
}

Using this workaround is another way to bind from a data template to a command that is in the viewmodel.