Using triggers to fire the Items.CurrentChanging event on a tab control - wpf

I am using MVVM for a project and my question relates to using triggers.
The Items property of the TabControl has a property called items and items has an event called CurrentChanging. (TabControl.Items.CurrentChanging)
How do I wire up an event on the child of my main object using triggers?
Thanks
Edit:
This is using WPF and the MVVM-Light toolkit

This was solved by creating a Routed Event that was raised when the CurrentChangingEvent was fired in the code behind.
To make it fire I needed to add in the IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem = true;

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I have a derived Combobox control. In Autogeneratingcolumns event, I have assigned FrameworkElemnt of derived combobox as shown below:
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Good news. Issue has been identified. And the answer is, there was a PreviewMouseDown event and Focus() was called in the event. And thereby the dropdown was closed and was not available for click. I corrected the logic to solve the issue.
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I have bound the WPF DataGrid to an observable collection of view models, where each view model represents each row in the DataGrid. The view model handles the BeginEdit and CellEditEnding events.
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