How to pass the selectedItem of a listbox to the View Model?

With this line you create a new SearchViewModelDataSource using its default constructor.

While this was a hacky approach I found an intermediate solution to get the listbox item value to the view model. I ended up using the selection changed event and passing the value directly to a public property wihtin my view model. Not the best approach but it resolved the issue short term.

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