Controlling the toolkit:popup using MVVM

Recently I found out that when I wanted to display the popup I have to call the popup from code behind file .xaml.cs and call the extension method ShowPopup/ShowPopupAsync. It would be a lot easier for us to call that method from ViewModel instead.

For now I have a work around but introducing the feature on upcoming release would be better than to relay on that workaround. Thanks!

[samir-dahal]

@VladislavAntonyuk , @samir-dahal can you guys guide me towards any sample code/tutorial for implementing the dialog service for calling/opening the popup from vm?

I hope you already have created a popup. To actually show the popup from vm you have to reference the MainPage from

await App.Current.MainPage.ShowPopupAync(new YourPopup()); You can create a helper as well

[symbiogenesis]

I think this should be re-opened. Ideally under MVVM, you would want the popup itself to have a ViewModel and be able to return a result in a manner entirely driven by the ViewModel.

But currently the Popup’s Close() method is only available inside of the Popup’s codebehind. There is no ICommand interface that can drive the Close event. And the Popup doesn’t even support Behaviors, so you cannot use the EventToCommandBehavior.