What is the actual task of CanExecuteChanged and CommandManager.RequerySuggested?

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  1. CanExecuteChanged notifies any command sources (like a Button or MenuItem) that are bound to that ICommand that the value returned by CanExecute has changed. Command sources care about this because they generally need to update their status accordingly (eg. a Button will disable itself if CanExecute() returns false).
  2. The CommandManager.RequerySuggested event is raised whenever the CommandManager thinks that something has changed that will affect the ability of commands to execute. This might be a change of focus, for example. Turns out that this event fires a lot.

So, in essence, what this bit of code does is ensure that whenever the command manager thinks a command’s ability to execute has changed, the command will raise CanExecuteChanged even if it hasn’t actually changed.

I actually dislike this approach to implementing ICommand.CanExecuteChanged – it feels lazy and isn’t entirely reliable. I prefer a much more fine-grained approach where the command exposes a method (eg. RaiseCanExecuteChanged()) you can call to raise CanExecuteChanged, then you call this at the appropriate times from your view model.

For example, if you have a command that deletes the currently selected customer, it would have a CanExecute() handler that returns true only if there is a customer selected. You would therefore call RaiseCanExecuteChanged whenever the selected customer changes.

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