Getting Started with the Navigation Framework

A typical business application consists of a number of views, which act as content to be displayed within an outer shell. This shell generally includes ways of navigating around the application (along with headers, footers, etc.). The project created in Chapter 1 using the Silverlight Business Application project template is a good example of this. If you haven't done so already, create a new project using this template now. In this project, you will have a shell and two views (Home and About). When you compile and run this project, you will get the user interface shown in Figure 3-1.

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