Silverlight master page

Question

hello

I am new to Silverlight and have decided to give it a go. I have no idea how to create a master page (page.xaml) using Silverlight...

Any help will be appreciated, Thanks

Answer 1

I suggest that you follow some tutorials found on http://silverlight.net/

Answer 2

As of SL 2.0, there is no "MasterPage" control in Silverlight. However, you could reproduce the effect by doing some simple content swapping with a ContentControl.

The simplest implementation would start by creating a UserControl that has your master content, then use a ContentControl to act as the content place holder (i.e. similar to ASP.NET). Then you can set the Content to be other UserControls.

In Silverlight 3.0, you can embed "Frame" controls to do the same thing.

Answer 3

Check out Silverlight 3.0, and in particular the navigation feature. Tim Heuer has a good intro in his blog post here.

And a good video here.

Answer 4

You might find my TemplatePanel implementation interesting for the master page scenario... (just place a TemplatePanel as the root element in your page, and define the template of the TemplatePanel in resources so it can be defined once)

http://www.nikhilk.net/Silverlight-TemplatePanel.aspx

Hope that helps!