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Cleve
Cleve

Reputation: 1443

MVVM Light Toolkit NavigationService implementation for WPF using a Frame

I am starting to learn MVVM and am trying to use the MVVM Light Toolkit in a WPF project. In the app I will need to navigate to numerous pages and navigate back also. I know I need a NavigationService that I should register with the SimpleIoc.

However, it appears the toolkit doesn't have an implementation of a NavigationService for use in WPF, only offering an INavigationService interface. In my MainWindow I have a Frame that I think should deal with the navigation, so my thinking is the NavigationService class should delegate to this in some way?

Can anyone supply, or point me in the direction of a WPF implementation of NavigationService class using a frame for me to understand it better? So far my searching has not produced anything for WPF, just stuff tailored to Silverlight which I no nothing about.

Like I say I'm just starting to get to grips with this MVVM stuff.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6100

Answers (1)

mm8
mm8

Reputation: 169320

MvvmLight doesn't provide an implementation of the INavigationService for WPF. This is because there is no standard navigation mechanism available in WPF as Laurent Bugnion - the creator of MvvmLight - has stated here: http://blog.galasoft.ch/posts/2014/10/announcing-mvvm-light-v5-for-windows-and-xamarin/

The Frame control has a NavigationService property. There is an example of how you could implement the INavigationInterface in WPF available here:

MVVM Light 5.0: How to use the Navigation service

Upvotes: 3

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