C H A P T E R  3

The Navigation Framework

One of the issues in the early versions of Silverlight was that when you created a new Silverlight project, you were essentially given a blank slate—with no existing user interface structure or framework to help you get started. This created quite a barrier for creating business applications in Silverlight, which typically contain complex user interfaces with numerous views that the user must navigate between. Therefore, to attempt to create a business application of any size in Silverlight 2, you had to start by creating a user interface framework.

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