Difference between Delegatecommand, relaycommand and routedcommand
Your FindProductCommand
class implements the ICommand
interface, which means it can be used as a WPF command. It is neither a DelegateCommand
nor a RelayCommand
, nor is it a RoutedCommand
, which are other implementations of the ICommand
interface.
FindProductCommand
vs DelegateCommand
/RelayCommand
Generally, when an implementation of ICommand
is named DelegateCommand
or RelayCommand
, the intention is that you don't have to write a class that implements the ICommand
interface; rather, you pass the necessary methods as parameters to the DelegateCommand
/ RelayCommand
constructor.
For example, instead of your entire class, you could write:
ProductViewModel _avm;
var FindPoductCommand = new DelegateCommand<object>(
parameter => _avm.FindProduct(),
parameter => _avm.CanFindProduct()
);
(Another, perhaps greater benefit than the savings in boilerplate code -- if you instantiate the DelegateCommand
/ RelayCommand
within your viewmodel, your command has access to the internal state of that viewmodel.)
Some implementations of DelegateCommand
/ RelayCommand
:
- Microsoft Prism DelegateCommand reference
- WPF Tutorial implementation of
ICommand
calledDelegateCommand
-
Another implementation also called
DelegateCommand
- The original implementation of
RelayCommand
by Josh Smith
Related:
- Relay/ICommand vs DelegateCommand -- Differences
FindProductCommand
vs RoutedCommand
Your FindProductCommand
will execute FindProduct
when triggered.
WPF's built-in RoutedCommand
does something else: it raises a routed event which can be handled by other objects in the visual tree. This means you can attach a command binding to those other objects to execute FindProduct
, while attaching the RoutedCommand
itself specifically to one or more objects that trigger the command, e.g. a button, a menu item, or a context menu item.
Some related SO answers:
- MVVM Routed and Relay Command
- WPF ICommand vs RoutedCommand