Navigation Between the Views

Some important aspects of a WPF application are how you will navigate from one view to another one, how you will communicate between the views, and how you will keep track of the changes and propagate them to the other views. For example, you may need to create a new customer, and when you are done, you update the Customers List view, which is behind the New Customer view that you just used.

To accomplish this and more complex tasks in a stand-alone WPF application, the Microsoft community has released some specific design patterns for WPF that you will analyze in Chapter 12; there are also some useful tools and third-party frameworks that will make your work easier. The point I want to focus now is how you can easily ...

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