Silverlight Commands Hacks: Passing EventArgs as CommandParameter to DelegateCommand triggered by Ev

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Published on Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:19:00 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/24 6:33 UTC
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Today I've tried to find a way how to pass EventArgs as CommandParameter to DelegateCommand triggered by EventTrigger. By reverse engineering of default InvokeCommandAction I find that blend team just ignores event args.

To resolve this issue I have created my own action for triggering delegate commands.

public sealed class InvokeDelegateCommandAction : TriggerAction<DependencyObject>
{
    /// <summary>
    ///
    /// </summary>
    public static readonly DependencyProperty CommandParameterProperty =
        DependencyProperty.Register("CommandParameter", typeof(object), typeof(InvokeDelegateCommandAction), null);

    /// <summary>
    ///
    /// </summary>
    public static readonly DependencyProperty CommandProperty = DependencyProperty.Register(
        "Command", typeof(ICommand), typeof(InvokeDelegateCommandAction), null);

    /// <summary>
    ///
    /// </summary>
    public static readonly DependencyProperty InvokeParameterProperty = DependencyProperty.Register(
        "InvokeParameter", typeof(object), typeof(InvokeDelegateCommandAction), null);

    private string commandName;

    /// <summary>
    ///
    /// </summary>
    public object InvokeParameter
    {
        get
        {
            return this.GetValue(InvokeParameterProperty);
        }
        set
        {
            this.SetValue(InvokeParameterProperty, value);
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    ///
    /// </summary>
    public ICommand Command
    {
        get
        {
            return (ICommand)this.GetValue(CommandProperty);
        }
        set
        {
            this.SetValue(CommandProperty, value);
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    ///
    /// </summary>
    public string CommandName
    {
        get
        {
            return this.commandName;
        }
        set
        {
            if (this.CommandName != value)
            {
                this.commandName = value;
            }
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    ///
    /// </summary>
    public object CommandParameter
    {
        get
        {
            return this.GetValue(CommandParameterProperty);
        }
        set
        {
            this.SetValue(CommandParameterProperty, value);
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    ///
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="parameter"></param>
    protected override void Invoke(object parameter)
    {
        this.InvokeParameter = parameter;
       
        if (this.AssociatedObject != null)
        {
            ICommand command = this.ResolveCommand();
            if ((command != null) && command.CanExecute(this.CommandParameter))
            {
                command.Execute(this.CommandParameter);
            }
        }
    }

    private ICommand ResolveCommand()
    {
        ICommand command = null;
        if (this.Command != null)
        {
            return this.Command;
        }
        var frameworkElement = this.AssociatedObject as FrameworkElement;
        if (frameworkElement != null)
        {
            object dataContext = frameworkElement.DataContext;
            if (dataContext != null)
            {
                PropertyInfo commandPropertyInfo = dataContext
                    .GetType()
                    .GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance)
                    .FirstOrDefault(
                        p =>
                        typeof(ICommand).IsAssignableFrom(p.PropertyType) &&
                        string.Equals(p.Name, this.CommandName, StringComparison.Ordinal)
                    );

                if (commandPropertyInfo != null)
                {
                    command = (ICommand)commandPropertyInfo.GetValue(dataContext, null);
                }
            }
        }
        return command;
    }
}

Example:

<ComboBox>
    <ComboBoxItem Content="Foo option 1" />
    <ComboBoxItem Content="Foo option 2" />
    <ComboBoxItem Content="Foo option 3" />
    <Interactivity:Interaction.Triggers>
        <Interactivity:EventTrigger EventName="SelectionChanged" >
            <Presentation:InvokeDelegateCommandAction
                Command="{Binding SubmitFormCommand}"
                CommandParameter="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Path=InvokeParameter}" />
        </Interactivity:EventTrigger>
    </Interactivity:Interaction.Triggers>               
</ComboBox>

BTW: InvokeCommanAction CommandName property are trying to find command in properties of view. It very strange, because in MVVM pattern command should be in viewmodel supplied to datacontext.

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