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Asked: 2026-05-20T07:50:00+00:00

I have a button on a listview control. I have bound this control to

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I have a button on a listview control. I have bound this control to one of the command on the base class of the ViewModel class. If I place a button outside of the listview it works fine with the same command. But the command does not get fired when I place it on the listview.

can you think of a reason????

Below is the snippet:

<ListView Grid.Row="2" AlternationCount="2" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=AObject}" Margin="20" MaxHeight="200">
            <ListView.DataContext>
                <local:MyViewModel/>
            </ListView.DataContext>
            <ListView.View>
                <GridView>
                    <GridViewColumn Header="Run ID" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=RID}" />
                    <GridViewColumn Header="Job ID" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=JID}" />
                    <GridViewColumn Header="Run Description">
                        <GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
                            <DataTemplate>
                                <ContentPresenter Content="{Binding Path=OpenScCommand}" HorizontalAlignment="Right"/>
                            </DataTemplate>
                        </GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
                    </GridViewColumn>
                    <GridViewColumn Header="Edit">
                        <GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
                            <DataTemplate>
                                <Button  Command="{Binding ShowItemCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding Path=RID}" Content="_Edit email run" IsDefault="False"/>
                            </DataTemplate>
                        </GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
                    </GridViewColumn>
                </GridView>
            </ListView.View>
        </ListView>
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  1. Editorial Team

    That’s because the button is in the ListViewItem, so it inherits the DataContext of the item that contains it. Here’s how you can bind to the DataContext of the ListView itself:

    <Button  Command="{Binding ShowItemCommand}" DataContext="{Binding DataContext, RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType=ListView}}" ...

    As a side note: depending on what the command does, it might be better to put it in the ViewModel of the items

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