Call Command from Code Behind

Question

So I\'ve been searching around and cannot find out exactly how to do this. I\'m creating a user control using MVVM and would like to run a command on the \'Loaded\' event.

Answer 1

I have a more compact solution that I want to share. Because I often execute commands in my ViewModels, I got tired of writing the same if statement. So I wrote an extension for ICommand interface.

using System.Windows.Input;

namespace SharedViewModels.Helpers
{
    public static class ICommandHelper
    {
        public static bool CheckBeginExecute(this ICommand command)
        {
            return CheckBeginExecuteCommand(command);
        }

        public static bool CheckBeginExecuteCommand(ICommand command)
        {
            var canExecute = false;
            lock (command)
            {
                canExecute = command.CanExecute(null);
                if (canExecute)
                {
                    command.Execute(null);
                }
            }

            return canExecute;
        }
    }
}

And this is how you would execute command in code:

((MyViewModel)DataContext).MyCommand.CheckBeginExecute();

I hope this will speed up your development just a tiny bit more. :)

P.S. Don't forget to include the ICommandHelper's namespace too. (In my case it is SharedViewModels.Helpers)