The CommandManager take 3…

[UPDATE]
The code for the CommandManager has been rewritten due to some memory management issues. And together with that change, I have decided to put it on Codeplex. My blog posts about it are still more or less valid, but I suggest also taking a look at the code at http://agcommandmanager.codeplex.com/.
[/UPDATE]

Once again I return to the CommandManager that I have blogged about before. And I know it is getting boring and that I some day must leave that behind me and go forward. However, after having had a look at Prism/CAG/CAL and seen how Microsoft solves the commanding infrastructure, I have decided that the CommandManager still fills a purpose.

I also had a plan to retire the CommandManager completely and implement something similar using Behaviors. However, Behavior<T> or what ever it is called, inherits directly from DependencyObject instead of from FrameworkElement. This made it really hard to use in this situation, since it doesn’t support data binding. So I had to scrap that idea for now. It seems as if Microsoft uses this idea in Prism, but introduces an extra static object to get it to work… At least in the Prism implementation I have been looking at.

So why do I return to the CommandManager again? Just to argue that it is great and boost my ego? No…apparently, my previous implementation had a flaw. I might have a lot more, but I discovered one that caused problems. So I have rectified that…

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