Hi Steve,
This is the way build-in editable feature works. If you wish you could bind an external custom edit form to the dataItem that should be edited via MVVM. There is a code library project which demonstrates how this can be done with Kendo Grid.
You can use the same approach with ListView.
Regards,
Alexander Valchev
Telerik
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