Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5

Workshop: Practicing with Views and Navigation

In this section, you'll create a new view and add a link to it in the menu (part 1). You will then create another view that you pass data to as a query string parameter (part 2). Finally, you will map a custom URI, demonstrating how you can make the URI “friendlier” in the address bar (part 3).

Part 1: Creating a New View

In this first exercise, let's create a new view and add a link to it.

1. Open the AdventureWorks solution you created in Chapter 1.
2. Add a new item to the Views folder in your project called ProductListView.xaml, using the Silverlight Page item template.

   Figure 3-4. Adding a new ...