Getting selected item in ItemsControl

Question

I have the following code which populates my user control in form of rows and column. The user control which is being populated contains Button, links, textbox etc. When a certain button is pressed on a particular User Control in a particular row/column, I need to know for which User Control that button was pressed. Here is the XAML that is populating the user controls in rows and columns

  <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding Templates}" Width="{Binding GridWidth}">
        <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
              <ItemsPanelTemplate>
                    <UniformGrid Columns="{Binding NumColumns}" />
              </ItemsPanelTemplate>
        </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
              <ItemsControl.ItemContainerStyle>
                 <Style>
                     <Setter Property="Grid.Column" Value="{Binding ColumnIndex}" />
                     <Setter Property="Grid.Row" Value="{Binding RowIndex}" />
                  </Style>
                 </ItemsControl.ItemContainerStyle>
                 <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
  </ItemsControl>

Templates is basically a collection of UserControls that are being populated in Rows/Columns. Preferably I want to do this in ViewModel but solution in code behind for now will work as well.

Answer 1

ItemsControl can't select items, only present collections. Only a Selector or one of it's descendants can select items.

For your scenario, I think a ListView with GridView would fit. When the user would click a control in the line, the event would bubble to the ListView and the item would get selected. You can override the default styles so it wouldn't display as selected line: WPF ListView turn off selection.