Equivalent to a keypreview property in WPF

Question

I\'m pondering taking the plunge to WPF from WinForms for some of my apps, currently I\'m working on the combined barcode-reader/text-entry program (healthcare patient forms

Answer 1

WPF uses event bubbling and tunneling. In other words the events travel down and up the visual element tree. Some events will have a corresponding Preview event. So MouseDown will have a PreviewMouseDown that you can respond to. Check out this link and scroll down to the WPF Input Events section.