Using Silverlight.FX Window for MVVM as a Silverlight 3.0 Page?

Question

I'm creating a Silverlight 3.0 MVVM application using Silverlight.FX but my View is actually using the Silverlight navigation system, a Page. Following Nikhil's example, my View should derive from the Silverlight.FX Window class.

What's the best approach to making a Window that also supports the Page functionality or is there something that already does this?

Answer 1

Discovered the Page and PageFrame classes of Silverlight.FX. These classes have the same basic functionality as the Silverlight navigation types but with support for the binding I was looking for.

xmlns:fxnav="clr-namespace:SilverlightFX.UserInterface.Navigation;assembly=SilverlightFX"
...
<fxnav:PageFrame x:Name="_frame"
                 IsIntegratedWithBrowser="True"
                 DefaultUri="StartView"
                 HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch"/>

I'm having trouble grabbing the parent container from the Pages' code-behind (unlike the Silverlight 3.0 Page) but I shouldn't need it once I remove the Click handler and fully switch to MVVM anyway.

Answer 2

It is worth to mention that PageFrame's default PageLoader component automatically mapping all pages available. There is no way to use new UriMapping component from Silverlight 3 with SilverlightFX's PageFrame. So, if your page is named as MySilverlightPage.xaml (and corresponding page class has the same name), it will be available at "mysilverlight" address.

P.S. I decided to mention it, because it was not clear for me when I tried to use SilverlightFX first time.

Answer 3

Within MVVM model, how can i navigate using silverlightFX?

Model can't access View's resources. So i made an event, which the View subscribes upon. But in the View code behind, i want to navigate to the desired uri.

What is the best approach?