WPF: How to attach mouse events to a viewmodel?

Question

I am trying to use the MVVM pattern for the first time. So I have an ItemsControl filled with my viewmodel objects, displayed using DataTemplate\'s; th

Answer 1

The ViewModel should be disconnected from the GUI, so it doesn't know anything about controls or mouseclicks.

Two options:

• Call a command in the the ViewModel, as suggested by Thomas
• Bind the position of the thumb to a property in the ViewModel, then when the control moves around WPF will update the position values in the ViewModel.