Strings are fine most of the time, specially for things like menus or links but for most cases I just delegate the decision to the VM of where to navigate to or if we need to navigate at all.
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Steven Nagy <[email protected]> wrote: > I usually keep the view and the view model separate, such that the VM has > no knowledge of the view. > > From the view model I might issue a call to navigate to a name, such as > “Home”. > > The navigation service will be responsible for working out what view / VM > to build/resolve from that name, and where to load that view (ie in a > region, in the shell, in a popup, etc). > > The nav service tends to change quite drastically between applications > though, and depends if you’re using prism or other presentation style > frameworks. > > > > Of course if you just roll with Magellan you don’t need to think about all > this. J > > I need to spend more time with it, but it’s not the first item on my to do > list… > > > > *Steven Nagy > *Readify | Senior Consultant, Technical Specialist (Azure), Mentor | MVP > Windows Azure > > M: +61 404 044 513 | E: [email protected] | B: azure.snagy.name** > > [image: Description: Description: sig banner] > > * * > > *P** **Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing > this e-mail.* > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > *On Behalf Of *Winston Pang > *Sent:* Wednesday, 3 November 2010 6:03 PM > > *To:* ozDotNet; ozWPF > *Subject:* MVVM in a navigational paradigm > > > > Hey guys, > > > I'm trying to apply MVVM in the WPF navigation model. > > I was just doing some thoughts around it > > Apart from the rule that the view model shouldn't know about the view, how > would a particular view spawn another view, and push it to the navigation > service for example? I've been playing around with some ideas of holding a > mapping between the View and ViewModel in a global list in App. Then have > App register against the messenger/mediator to respond to any other view > model's wanting to spawn a new view and navigating it to it. I'm not sure if > I'm on the right track. > > Would love to see how some other people have done it on here? > > > Thanks. > > > --Winston > > > _______________________________________________ > ozwpf mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozwpf > > -- Miguel A. Madero Reyes www.miguelmadero.com (blog) [email protected]
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