What is the best way to get strongly typed view-model reference in the view?

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C#

MVVM

I have a Xamarin project that uses a fairly standard MVVM pattern. The following code shows the structure of this and all compiles and runs as expected:

   public abstract class ViewLogicBase
   {
       public abstract void DisplayLogicType();
   }

   public class FirstViewLogic : ViewLogicBase
   {
       public override void DisplayLogicType() { Debug.WriteLine( "FirstViewLogic" );
}

       public string BindablePropertyInFirstViewLogic => "BindablePropertyInFirstViewLogic";
   }

   public class SecondViewLogic : ViewLogicBase
   {
       public override void DisplayLogicType() { Debug.WriteLine( "SecondViewLogic" ); }
       public string BindablePropertyInSecondViewLogic => "BindablePropertyInSecondViewLogic";
   }

   public abstract class ViewBase
   {
       public ViewBase( ViewLogicBase viewLogicBase ) => BindingContext = viewLogicBase;
       public abstract void DisplayViewType();
       public ViewLogicBase BindingContext { get; }
   }

   public class FirstView : ViewBase
   {
       public FirstView( ViewLogicBase viewLogicBase ) : base( viewLogicBase ) {}

       public override void DisplayViewType() { Debug.WriteLine( "FirstView" ); }

       public void FirstMiscellaneousFunction()
       {
           DisplayViewType();
           BindingContext.DisplayLogicType();
       }
   }

   public class SecondView : ViewBase
   {
       public SecondView( ViewLogicBase viewLogicBase ) : base( viewLogicBase ) {}

       public override void DisplayViewType() { Debug.WriteLine( "SecondView" ); }

       public void SecondMiscellaneousFunction()
       {
           DisplayViewType();
           BindingContext.DisplayLogicType();

           Debug.WriteLine( $"Specific function in SecondViewLogic returned: {((SecondViewLogic)BindingContext).BindablePropertyInSecondViewLogic}" );

           // NOTE: Uncommenting this does not compile.
           //string nameofPropertySpecificToSecondViewLogic = nameof(((SecondViewLogic)BindingContext).BindablePropertyInSecondViewLogic);
       }
   }

   class Program
   {
       static void Main( string[] args )
       {
           FirstView firstView = new FirstView( new FirstViewLogic() );
           SecondView secondView = new SecondView( new SecondViewLogic() );

           firstView.FirstMiscellaneousFunction();
           secondView.SecondMiscellaneousFunction();

           Console.ReadLine();
       }
   }

When I want to bind to a property in the view-model in C# code, I would like to use nameof() instead of a magic string. The problem is that nameof() will not accept a sub-expression. This is illustrated by the commented-out line in SecondMiscellaneousFunction() above.

What is the best way round this?

What I have tried:

I have thought about adding a generic type parameter to the ViewBase...

public abstract class ViewBase<T> where T : ViewLogicBase

...but this does not play well with the navigation code I have inherited, nor does it work with XAML.

The only other solution I can think of is the cheap-and-cheerful adding of a specific property in each view that performs the cast...

public FirstViewLogic TypedBindingContext => (FirstViewLogic)BindingContext;

But this seems a bit rough round the edges.