Getting current Object in Control template - wpf

Question

<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}">
<StackPanel>
<StackPanel Margin="0,0,28,0" Orientation="Horizontal" Visibility="{Binding IsEditable,Converter={StaticResource BooleanToVisibilityConverter}}">
<TextBlock Foreground="Gray" Text="{Binding DateCreated,Converter={StaticResource DateTimeConverter}}" FontFamily="/Assets/Fonts/Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk BE Regular.ttf" FontSize="16"/>
<TextBlock Text=":" Foreground="Gray"/>
<TextBlock Width="20"/>
<TextBox ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled" BorderThickness="0" Name="TrainerNoteText" Text="{Binding TrainerNote}" FontFamily="/Assets/Fonts/Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk BE Regular.ttf" Foreground="Black" FontSize="16" TextWrapping="Wrap" KeyUp="EditTrainerNote" Width="400"/>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</ControlTemplate>
The above control template is in a listview. The textbox inside is editable. So when user presses the enter key, I need to get the current object associated with that. How to do this?

Answer 1

You can listen to KeyDown RoutedEvent at ListView level.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.input.keyboard.keydown.aspx
Its an attached event and its handler can be placed anywhere in VisualTree.
Here is an example:
<StackPanel TextBox.KeyDown="OnKeyDownHandler">
<TextBox Width="300" Height="20"/>
</StackPanel>
And this is the handler:
public void OnKeyDownHandler(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Key == Key.Return)
{
TextBox tbx = (TextBox)sender;
tbx.....
}
}

Answer 2

You know, you really should define what your items look like in a DataTemplate defined in the ListBox.ItemTemplate property and not the ListBoxItem.Template property. Based on the example from the linked page:
<ListBox Width="400" Margin="10" ItemsSource="{Binding YourCollectionProperty}">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=TaskName}" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Description}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Priority}"/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
When Binding a collection property to the ListBox.Items property, all of the UI elements inside the DataTemplate will have access to the properties of the type that is in the collection. In this example, the type that populates the YourCollectionProperty collection has TaskName, Description and Priority properties in it. You can replace these properties with those from the type that is in your collection property.
If you set up your properties to implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface (or use DependencyProperties then any updates in the UI elements will automatically be updated in the data objects in the view model/code behind. Therefore, there is no need to add KeyDown or KeyUp handlers. For more information, please read the Data Binding Overview page on MSDN.