Creating Navigation Structures in Silverlight (Silverlight TV #38) | Silverlight TV

Gigy

Good Tutorial and clearly explained

CrispYY

Althou I felt familiar with the navigation framework I just picked up some parts new to me. Thanks for this great show!

koolraaga

Thank you David and John for another Excellent TV Episode.

SLTV Rocks !!!

KRK

gcadmes

Excellent video, thanks for posting it.

Question about the INavigationContentLoader. Can more than one custom ContentLoader be specified in Xaml where the Frame is defined? I think I recall an error indicating that the <navigation:Frame.ContentLoader> can only be set once. Surly there is a way to use multiple content loaders; Errors, authentication...etc.

thanks again,

Greg

david.poll

In reply to gcadmes

#Jul 29th @ 4:08 PM

Greg,

It's not possible "by default". However, take a look at some of my ContentLoader posts on my blog. I have ContentLoaders that delegate to other ContentLoaders, allowing them to be chained together to "decorate" the loading behavior with error handling, authentication, etc. Thankfully, these ContentLoaders compose reasonably well, so you can really create some expressive declarative definitions of navigation behavior.

ContentLoader-related posts

Let me know if you have any questions! I'll be happy to try to help! Smiley

-David Poll

Ben Hayat

One thing for the next video would be nice to cover, is when a page is loaded in a frame and then within that page, there might be links to load other pages into the frame. Another words, instead of from outside of the frame to load a page, but rather a loaded page can load another page to replace itself in the frame.

Secondly, is ContentLoader covered in WP7?

chris81

Hello, great article but in SL4 i can see many article with design pattern mvvm which a best practise, why you don't use it ?

jv9
.Net Developer

Great video. It's really useful.

david.poll

In reply to chris81

#Jul 30th @ 3:46 AM

Chris,

It's certainly possible to use MVVM with all of this -- the main reason it's not used here was because of time/simplicity constraints on the quick demo.

-David