Passing state of WPF ValidationRule to View Model in MVVM

Question

I am stuck in a seemingly common requirement. I have a WPF Prism (for MVVM) application. My model implements the IDataErrorInfo for validation. The

Answer 1

Since .NET 4.5, ValidationRule has an overload of the Validate method:

public ValidationResult Validate(object value, CultureInfo cultureInfo,
    BindingExpressionBase owner)

You can override it and get the view model this way:

public override ValidationResult Validate(object value, 
    CultureInfo cultureInfo, BindingExpressionBase owner)
{
    ValidationResult result = base.Validate(value, cultureInfo, owner);
    var vm = (YourViewModel)((BindingExpression)owner).DataItem;
    // ...
    return result;
}