Bind a keyboard shortcut to a command in the view model in WPF

Question

I have an application where I have a UserControl with a toolbar in it. This toolbar has a button Execute which in turn has its command bound to an

Answer 1

There was another answer that disappeared for some reason. This worked fine:

<UserControl.InputBindings>
  <KeyBinding Key="F5" Command="{Binding ExecuteCommand}" />
</UserControl.InputBindings>

I'd like to give credit to that guy if possible. Please appear again :)

Answer 2

Afaik, there isn't a way to directly bind to a keypress, but there are some work arounds. It looks like others have had this problem as well, have you seen this post? My other suggestion is to look into attached commands.