CoverFlow Create button to show child window

[Anthony]

Hi

Im new to using Silverlight, i have Silverlight app that uses the CoverFlow control, on each coverflow item the display is a list of hyperlinks that link to a url, this part is fine. 

On the CoverFlow Item i have a button that when clicked shows a new ChildWindow, i do this by :

<Button Content="Walkthrough" x:Name="LinksButtonWalkthrough" HorizontalAlignment="Left" FontFamily="Bliss 2 Bold" FontSize="20"  Foreground="#FF3F3FCE" FontWeight="Bold" Cursor="Hand" VerticalContentAlignment="Top" Width="150" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="30"/>

Then have the code

Private Sub LinksButtonWalkthrough_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) Handles LinksButtonWalkthrough.Click

        Dim cwNew As New ChildWindow
        cwNew.Show()

    End Sub

This is fine, but what i want to do is have this button show a different ChildWindow dependant on which CoverFlow Item is selected.

So e.g. if the cover flow has 6 items, i want the button to show me a different child window that will all have different content dependant on which coverflow item is selected.

How would i achieve this.

Many Thanks

[George]

Hello Anthony,

Thank you for contacting us.

I would suggest you to determine which item is selected by using the SelectedItem property of the RadCoverFlow and create the child window according to it.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,
George
the Telerik team

[Hernan]

Hi George,
And instead of 6 items what if you are binding your items from a xml file containing over 100 elements. It would be time wasting to create the same amount of childwindows. How would you achieve this?

[George]

Hi Hernan,

You could pass the selected item in the coverflow as a parameter and you could add some logic that creates the childwindow according to this item.  

Greetings,
George
the Telerik team