Prism Problems & Solutions: Showing Multiple Shells
This course addresses the problem of showing multiple instances of a shell in a Prism application. This course will introduce viewers to three common problems that are encountered when dealing with multiple shells.
What you'll learn
This course addresses the problem of showing multiple instances of a shell in a Prism application. This course will introduce viewers to three common problems that are encountered when dealing with multiple shells. We learn how we can crash our application with exceptions, and how to utilize Prism features to prevent those exceptions. We discuss the best way to show multiple instances of shell, and cover some options that we want to avoid completely. Lastly, this course will solve one of the more complex issues around controlling view composition when dealing with multiple instances of a shell as well as child views.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- The Problem - Controlling View Composition 3m
- Understand the Problem 3m
- The Solution - Custom Code 0m
- Demo - Implementing the Solution 9m
- Another Problem - Child Views 3m
- The Solution - Region Behaviors 1m
- Region Behaviors Explained 1m
- Demo - Implementing a Region Behavior 15m
- What's Next 2m
About the author
Brian Lagunas is a Microsoft MVP, a Microsoft Patterns & Practices Champion, Director of Technology for INETA, co-leader of the Boise .Net Developers User Group (NETDUG), board member of Boise Code Camp, speaker, trainer, author, and original creator of the Extended WPF Toolkit. He is a multi-recipient of the Microsoft Community Contributor Award and can be found speaking at a variety of user groups and code camps around the world. His talks always involve some form of XAML, such as WPF, Silverl... more