Command is missing on Checkbox control

Description

Why does Button have an ICommand to handle the click event but Checkbox has no such convenience?

Steps to Reproduce

Add Checkbox to view/control.

Version with bug

Release Candidate 3 (current)

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

I was not able test on other platforms

Affected platform versions

windows 10.0.19041.0

Did you find any workaround?

Community toolkit EventToCommand.

Writing code in the setter of a property bound to IsChecked. The horror.

Relevant log output

No response

[sam-wheat]

The MVVM pattern is a natural choice for .NET MAUI apps

Yes, it is. Please use this ticket or raise others to implement commanding robustly not just for Checkbox but for all controls (ListView.SelectionChanged).

[Laim]

I just discovered that CommunityToolkit.Mvvm adds auto-generated methods for each of the properties Changed and Changing for any ObservableProperty you create. So if your property is called IsSelected, you can do this:

[ObservableProperty]
private bool _isSelected;

partial void OnIsSelectedChanged(bool value)
{
    //do what you would otherwise do in a Command here
}

Found this info here. This is probably a cleaner-ish workaround? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/communitytoolkit/mvvm/generators/observableproperty

In my case, this worked for me as a workaround but it’s still a bit annoying we even have to do it! Thank you for commenting it.