Trouble binding LongListSelector.SelectedItem to MVVM property

Question

Using Visual Studio 2013 and the Window Phone 8 SDK I cannot get the SelectedItem property of the LongListSelector to properly bind to an MVVM property

Answer 1

To get the item that was selected to the ViewModel, I'm always using a LongListSelector Extension - the code can be found here: https://gist.github.com/Depechie/7524630

What you need to do is add it to the XAML of your LongListSelector:

The command on the viewmodel will receive the object type of your item source on the LongListSelector