EndEdit equivalent in WPF

I have a WPF Window that contains a TextBox. I have implemented a Command that executes on Crtl-S that saves the contents of the window. My problem is that if the textbox is the active control, and I have newly edited text in the textbox, the latest changes in the textbox are not commited. I need to tab out of the textbox to get the changes.

In WinForms, I would typically call EndEdit on the form, and all pending changes would get commited. Another alternative is using onPropertyChange binding rather than onValidation, but I would rather not do this.

What is the WPF equivalent to EndEdit, or what is the pattern to use in this type of scenario?

Thanks,

Solution

To avoid the issue of needing to tab away, you could simply change the UpdateSourceTrigger property of your controls' binding. Try the following:

<TextBox.Text>
    <Binding Path="MyProperty" UpdateSourceTrigger="PropertyChanged"/>
</TextBox.Text>

This tells WPF to update the backing object whenever the Text property is changed. This way, you don't need to worry about tabbing away. Hope this helps!

EDIT:

The accepted answer for the following SO question provides a way to automatically run validation rules for a page. You could modify it to call UpdateSource() on all BindingExpression objects instead.

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