WPF - Navigation
Premise Over the past few weeks, I was scrambling to develop a WPF 4.0 application along with a UI designer who specializes in Expression Blend. Though I have worked on WPF 3.5 projects previously, I was really flummoxed while implementing fundamental portions like navigation, modal pop-up’s, “Loading” animation, session management, etc. in WPF. I am not saying that WPF 4.0 is vastly different from WPF 3.5, but I realized that I have never closely worked with XAML and WPF specifics like dependency properties, resource dictionaries, routed events, etc. Anyway, since I had very limited time, I mostly chose the easiest ways to implement specific areas of the application. In this post, I will describe the simplest method to implement navigation in WPF. Disclaimer You might have come across WPF architectural frameworks such as PRISM, MVVM, etc. I have some experience with PRISM, but for my current application, I needed a "very very basic” navigation mechanism. So I woul