Window Loaded and WPF

Question

I have a WPF project in Windows 2012 in which I need to load some information in the Window Loaded event. I need to do this in the View Model rather than in the CodeBehind,

Answer 1

There are a few options. A couple of them listed here:

how to call a window's Loaded event in WPF MVVM?

However, in the off chance that you or anyone else cares that you are spending several hours to complete a task that should have taken 30 seconds, you might want to try this instead.

public MainWindow()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    this.Loaded += new RoutedEventHandler(MainWindow_Loaded);
}

void MainWindow_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    ShellViewModel.Instance.WindowLoadedCommand.Execute(null);
}