binding a command inside a listbox item to a property on the viewmodel parent
- by gideon
I've been working on this for about an hour and looked at all related SO questions.
My problem is very simple:
I have HomePageVieModel:
HomePageVieModel
+IList<NewsItem> AllNewsItems
+ICommand OpenNews
My markup:
<Window DataContext="{Binding HomePageViewModel../>
<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Path=AllNewsItems}">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock>
<Hyperlink Command="{Binding Path=OpenNews}">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=NewsContent}" />
</Hyperlink>
</TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
The list shows fine with all the items, but for the life of me whatever I try for the Command won't work:
<Hyperlink Command="{Binding Path=OpenNewsItem, RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=vm:HomePageViewModel, AncestorLevel=1}}">
<Hyperlink Command="{Binding Path=OpenNewsItem, RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=vm:HomePageViewModel,**Mode=FindAncestor}**}">
<Hyperlink Command="{Binding Path=OpenNewsItem, RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=vm:HomePageViewModel,**Mode=TemplatedParent}**}">
I just always get :
System.Windows.Data Error: 4 : Cannot find source for binding with reference .....
Update
I am setting my ViewModel like this? Didn't think this would matter:
<Window.DataContext>
<Binding Path="HomePage" Source="{StaticResource Locator}"/>
</Window.DataContext>
I use the ViewModelLocator class from the MVVMLight toolkit which does the magic.
