ListView SelectedItems binding: why the list is always null

Question

I'm developing a UWP App, with Mvvm Light and Behaviours SDK. I defined a multi selectable ListView:

<ListView
    x:Name="MembersToInviteList"
    IsMultiSelectCheckBoxEnabled="True"
    SelectionMode="Multiple"
    ItemsSource="{Binding Contacts}"
    ItemTemplate="{StaticResource MemberTemplate}">

</ListView>

I'd like, with a button binded to a MVVM-Light RelayCommand, to obtain a list with the selected items:

<Button
    Command="{Binding AddMembersToEvent}"
    CommandParameter="{Binding ElementName=MembersToInviteList, Path=SelectedItems}"
    Content="Ok"/>

The RelayCommand (of MVVM-Light framework):

private RelayCommand<object> _addMembersToEvent;
public RelayCommand<object> AddMembersToEvent
{
    get
    {
        return _addMembersToEvent
            ?? (_addMembersToEvent = new RelayCommand<object>(
               (selectedMembers) =>
               {
                   // Test
                   // selectedMembers is always null!
               }));
    }
}

I put a breakpoint inside the command, and I notice that selectedMembers is always null, although I select various items. By the console output I don't see any binding error or something else.

Also, if I pass as CommandParameter the whole list, and I put a breakpoint inside command's definition, i notice that I can't access to SelectedItems nor SelecteRanges value.

<DataTemplate x:Name="MemberTemplate">

    <Viewbox MaxWidth="250">
        <Grid Width="250"
              Margin="5, 5, 5, 5"
              Background="{StaticResource MyLightGray}"
              BorderBrush="{StaticResource ShadowColor}"
              BorderThickness="0, 0, 0, 1"
              CornerRadius="4"
              Padding="5">

            <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
                <ColumnDefinition Width="1*" />
            </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

            <Grid Grid.Column="0"
                  Width="45"
                  Height="45"
                  Margin="5,0,5,0"
                  VerticalAlignment="Center"
                  CornerRadius="50">

                <Grid.Background>
                    <ImageBrush AlignmentX="Center"
                                AlignmentY="Center"
                                ImageSource="{Binding Image.Url,
                                                      Converter={StaticResource NullGroupImagePlaceholderConverter}}"
                                Stretch="UniformToFill" />
                </Grid.Background>

            </Grid>

            <TextBlock Grid.Column="1"
                       Margin="3"
                       VerticalAlignment="Center"
                       Foreground="{StaticResource ForegroundTextOverBodyColor}"
                       Style="{StaticResource LightText}"
                       Text="{Binding Alias}" />

        </Grid>
    </Viewbox>

</DataTemplate>

What's the reason? How can I obtain such list?

Answer 1

One of the solutions to pass SelectedItems from ListView in ViewModel (with RelayCommands) is described in igralli's blog.

Pass ListView SelectedItems to ViewModel in Universal apps

Try the following code to get the selected objects from the parameter.

    private RelayCommand<IList<object>> _addMembersToEvent;
    public RelayCommand<IList<object>> AddMembersToEvent
    {
        get
        {
            return _addMembersToEvent
                   ?? (_addMembersToEvent = new RelayCommand<IList<object>>(
                       selectedMembers =>
                       {
                           List<object> membersList = selectedMembers.ToList();
                       }));
        }
    }