KeyBinding without a command in WPF

Question

I've a simple WPF app, and I'd like to add what is known in the Win32 world as keyboard accelerators. It looks like KeyBinding is the ticket, but it requires binding to a Command object. I'm not using command objects, nor do I want to. Is there another way to get an event triggered when a ctrl-x key sequence is hit?

Answer 1

The only reason that I can think of why anyone would not want to use command objects is if they have them in their mind associated with the viewmodel, while they want their keybinding to work exclusively within the view.

And indeed, if you try to declare an ICommand in the view, it is surprisingly hard to manage to bind the KeyBinding to it.

This is how I solved this problem in my project:

<Window x:Class="MyNamespace.MyView"
    (...)
    xmlns:local="clr-namespace:MyNameSpace"
    (...)
    <Grid>
        <Grid.InputBindings>
            <KeyBinding Key="R" Command="{Binding ReportCommand, 
                RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=local:MyView}}" />
    (...)

ReportCommand is an ICommand in MyView, not in the ViewModel.