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I am using caliburn micro in my Wpf application. I would like to scroll down a text box when it's content is more. I don't want to use view's code behind to achieve this functionality. I have google it and found the following link.

Use view's code behind directly. Though it may be a workaround, I am not happy with this approach because I consider this is the starting point of bad practice.

I found one more reference to achieve similar functionality using Rx (reactive extensions)

Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) in WPF - MVVM

I don't know how to use it in the context of Caliburn Micro.

Similar question was asked by another stackoverflow member here however no satisfactory response.

I have to do two things.

  1. Subscribe Text Changed event
  2. Get the Textbox object from sender parameter (or somehow the textbox object) and execute ScrollToEnd() method of it

I guess it is possible either by IHandle of Caliburn micro or Rx(Reactive extensions). Could some one please help me how to achieve this functionality?

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manu
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  • You should use the code-behind if you want to follow MVVM. This is a view-related operation, so it makes sense to place the logic with the view (XAML/Code-Behind). It is not "business logic" because you're view-model class should not care who is consuming it. If instead of a nice GUI you had a command-based consumer, why would the command-based consumer care about scrolling to the end of a TextBox/RichTextBox? – myermian Jun 07 '12 at 14:32

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Have you looked at using an IResult? They provide a way to accomplish this without coupling the view and viewmodel together.

A blurb from the docs:

Because coroutines occur inside of an Action, we provide you with an ActionExecutionContext useful in building UI-related IResult implementations. This allows the ViewModel a way to declaratively state it intentions in controlling the view without having any reference to a View or the need for interaction-based unit testing.

A example of playing a sound in SL with MediaElement and CM. Playing a sound in Silverlight with MediaElement and Caliburn Micro

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Like m-y said in his comment, this is essentially a View operation and not a ViewModel's. Code behind on views is not immediately bad practice. Code behind on view is only bad when the operations needs dependencies past the View.

If you don't like code behind on the view, you can do it by using behaviors:

  public class TextBoxScrollToEndOnTextChanged:Behavior<TextBox>
  {
    protected override void OnAttached()
    {
      AssociatedObject.TextChanged += AssociatedObject_TextChanged;
    }

    protected override void OnDetaching()
    {
      AssociatedObject.TextChanged -= AssociatedObject_TextChanged;
    }

    void AssociatedObject_TextChanged(object sender, TextChangedEventArgs e)
    {
      AssociatedObject.ScrollToEnd();
    }
  }

xaml:

<TextBox>
    <i:Interaction.Behaviors>
        <behaviors:TextBoxScrollToEndOnTextChanged />
    </i:Interaction.Behaviors>
</TextBox>

Now if you have View - ViewModel interaction, I think this is the best way to do it.

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