MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF

Gestures, events, and commands

Classes that expose a command property in WPF and Silverlight are implementing the ICommandSource interface that is shown in the following code:

// Defines an object that knows how to invoke a command.
public interface ICommandSource
{
// The command that will be executed when the command
source is invoked.
ICommand Command { get; }
// Represents a user defined data value that can be
passed to the command when it is executed.
object CommandParameter { get; }
// The object that the command is being executed on.
IInputElement CommandTarget { get; }
}

One major limitation of the commanding infrastructure is that ICommandSource only allows for one action on a command source to be associated with a command. So, for example, ...