I have in my application a data template that has a few buttons. I want those buttons' even handler to be fired in the current page (I am using this template in many pages) rather than in the Application.xaml.vb/cs file, since I want different actions on each page.
I hope I am clear.
You can use commanding to achieve this. Have the Buttons in the DataTemplate execute specific Commands:
<Button Command="{x:Static MyCommands.SomeCommand}"/> Then have each view that uses that DataTemplate handle the Command:
<UserControl> <UserCommand.CommandBindings> <CommandBinding Command="{x:Static MyCommands.SomeCommand}" Executed="_someHandler"/> </UserCommand.CommandBindings> </UserControl> EDIT after comments: Once you have created a code-behind for your ResourceDictionary as per these instructions, you can simply connect events in the usual fashion:
In MyResources.xaml:
<ListBox x:Key="myListBoxResource" ItemSelected="_listBox_ItemSelected"/> Then in MyResources.xaml.cs:
private void _listBox_ItemSelected(object sender, EventArgs e) { ... } 
If you use events and not commands, then in your Click event handler just write
private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { var dataItem = (FrameworkElement)sender).DataContext; // process dataItem } 