Navigation between windows and pages is a crucial point, both in web and desktop applications. If you are an experienced developer, you may remember those times when the event of a button was directly associated with instantiation and the call of a window
show
method. Nowadays, the tendency is to decouple navigation and windows along with using a Navigation Framework.
For those coming from web development using iFrames , the idea will sound familiar (better still, the Silverlight Navigation Framework integrates flawlessly in our Silverlight developments). Imagine a web application in which the header, which contains a navigation menu, is fixed. Finally, let us imagine that every menu option makes the content of our application (the page) change. However, what really happens is that it loads another page in the central iFrame in the backend. Roughly speaking, this is the Navigation Framework.
Another viewpoint (that of an ASP.NET developer) is thinking that we...