Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5, Second Edition

Page-Based Interfaces

To create a page-based application in WPF, you need to stop using the Window class as your top-level container for user interfaces. Instead, it's time to switch to the System.Windows.Controls.Page class.

The model for creating pages in WPF is much the same as the model for creating windows. Although you could create page objects with just code, you'll usually create a XAML file and a code-behind file for each page. When you compile that application, the compiler creates a derived page class that combines your code with a bit of automatically generated glue (such as the fields that refer to each named element on your page). This is the same process that you learned about when you considered compilation with a window-based ...