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Steve Chadbourne
Steve Chadbourne

Reputation: 6953

Windows Phone 8 with Caliburn Micro dialog approach

I am writing a Windows Phone 8 app that manages jobs. I am using Caliburn Micro for MVVM duties.

Simplified overview: Page 1 shows a list of jobs. User selects a job. App shows relevant page - either page 2 for job type "Clean Dishes" or page 3 for job type "Vacuum Floor". All pages are view models.

So far so good.

The user can also press a plus button to add a new job. I need to show a list of job types to determine whether to show page 2 or page 3.

I would prefer that the job type list be a view model. If I make it a page it gets put in the back stack which I don't want. I don't know how to display a user control based view model from within a page. This is a port of a WPF app and there I would use WindowManager to display a view model in a modal dialog.

Options

  1. Make job type list a page and remove it from the back stack when page2/3 is closed
  2. Make job type list a user control. How to display from page 1?
  3. Other option.

Has anyone overcome a similar issue? Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 311

Answers (1)

Alaa Masoud
Alaa Masoud

Reputation: 7135

You can have your job type list in its own page and remove it from the back stack. Just add some code to OnNavigatedFrom event

protected override void OnNavigatedFrom(NavigationEventArgs e) {
  base.OnNavigatedFrom(e);
  NavigationService.RemoveBackEntry();
}

This will cause it be removed from the back stack when you navigate to either page 2 or page 3.

Upvotes: 1

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