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In a mixed X#/C# program I have a user control showing messages in a chat like series of balloons defined in WPF as a user control. This is C# code. The client wants to be able to copy the content of a selected message to the clipboard. Now I am as far as getting in a method on Copy:

private void CommandBinding_Executed(object sender, ExecutedRoutedEventArgs e)
// Called from WPF USer control using <CommandBinding Command="Copy" Executed="CommandBinding_Executed"/>

{
string cValue;
cValue = MessagesItemsCtrl.SelectedValue.Message; // Should be message in selected control
// Put cValue in clipboard


But I am unable to retrieve the message content. MessagesItemsCtrl.SelectedValue is the right element on a ListView and I can see all fields in the class below (I show the first view lines) in the Immediate Window.

But cValue = MessagesItemsCtrl.SelectedValue.Message doesn't work. I can not access Message:
Error CS1061 'object' does not contain a definition for 'Message' and no accessible extension method 'Message' accepting a first argument of type 'object' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

All attempts to access ChatMessage (ChatMessage.Message or something) instead didn't work either

What do I miss?
Below parts of the code:

Dick

private ChatMessage _selectedChatMessage;
public ChatMessage SelectedChatMessage
{
get { return _selectedChatMessage; }
set
{
_selectedChatMessage = value;
OnPropertyChanged();
}
}


public class ChatMessage : ViewModelBase
{
public int Recno { get; set; }
public string Message { get; set; }
(etc)

XAML : ListView witin the Custom Control, part of code

<ListView x:Name="MessagesItemsCtrl" Grid.Column="1" Margin="0,5,0,0"
ItemsSource="{Binding SelectedParticipant.Chatter}"
ItemTemplate="{DynamicResource MessagesDataTemplate}"
SelectedItem="{Binding SelectedChatMessage, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"

Hi Dick,

what is the type of the SelectedParticipant.Chatter object? An ObservableCollection of ChatMessage objects?

I have some of these constructs working, but in plain X# without any XAML or C#.

Wolfgang

I think SelectedParticipant is a field in he ViewModel representing the user of the chat. But the problem is the message.

I do have a workaround to access the value. But I am sure this is not how I should do it in MvvM....

1 In the set of public ChatMessage SelectedChatMessage I add:
ExtensionMethods.SetLastUsedMessage(_selectedChatMessage.Message);

2 In the class ExtensionMethods I then assign the Message as passed above to a public variable of that class
3 In the CommandBinding_Executed method, called when someone uses Ctrl C I retrieve that value again:
cValue= ExtensionMethods.GetLastUsedMessage("");

It's like defining a program GLOBAL in VO and use that to get an otherwise inaccessible variable the easy way....

Dick

Hi Dick,
in MVVM you should work with databinding and possibly no fixed connection between view and vievmodel.
You can create your own control class, create a new property and use databinding to bind it to the relativer property of your viewmodel.
Wolfgang