According to
this forum message, it's not possible to bind the Text property from the Avalon Editor to a simple property of a ViewModel.
Instead, you can use the Document property from the editor and bind it to a property of your ViewModel.
Here is the code for the view :
<Window x:Class="AvalonEditIntegration.UI.View"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:AvalonEdit="clr-namespace:ICSharpCode.AvalonEdit;assembly=ICSharpCode.AvalonEdit"
Title="Window1"
WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen"
Width="500"
Height="500">
<DockPanel>
<Button Content="Show code"
Command="{Binding ShowCode}"
Height="50"
DockPanel.Dock="Bottom" />
<AvalonEdit:TextEditor ShowLineNumbers="True"
Document="{Binding Path=Document}"
FontFamily="Consolas"
FontSize="10pt" />
</DockPanel>
</Window>
And the code for the ViewModel :
namespace AvalonEditIntegration.UI
{
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Input;
using ICSharpCode.AvalonEdit.Document;
public class ViewModel
{
public ViewModel()
{
ShowCode = new DelegatingCommand(Show);
Document = new TextDocument();
}
public ICommand ShowCode { get; private set; }
public TextDocument Document { get; set; }
private void Show()
{
MessageBox.Show(Document.Text);
}
}
}