Why are events and commands in MVVM so unsupported by WPF / Visual Studio?

Question

When creating an WPF application with the MVVM pattern, it seems I have to gather the necessary tools myself to even begin the most rudimentary event handling,

Answer 1

Glad to hear I am not the only one that thinks the commanding implementations out there are overkill. Databinding seems naturally well-supported but I have been banging my head for weeks trying to understand command bindings for things other than buttons and elements that inherit from it.

Thanks for posting this question. I think from now on I am going to handle all events in the view layer with a redirect to the view model functions. I think this is how they taught basic MVVM in one of Microsoft's XAMLFest 2-day course. Good enough for me!