TabControl and MVVM

[Jeff Ballard]

I'm using Silverlight 4 and VS 2010 (both RC) and RIA services. I'm also new to Silverlight...

I have a page that has a Telerik RadTabControl on it. It will always have six tabs, i.e. the number of tabs is not data driven. The tabs are used for various admin functions. One tab for managing users with a grid and edit view, another that will have basic company info - just a few text boxes on it. The other tabs are similar to these two.

I'm trying to use MVVM and can't decide on the best approach. I don't think I want one big ViewModel that handles all six tabs - that would be big, ugly and harder to maintain. Any recommendations for approaches on how to break this out? Perhaps have a ViewModel for each tab? If so, how would I (generally) go about implementing something like that? Or is there another approach that makes more sense?

Thanks,

Jeff

[Valentin.Stoychev]

Hi Jeff Ballard,

You can keep it simple and use set each of the tab item content into a UserControl.

Sincerely yours,
Valentin.Stoychev
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[Jeff Ballard]

Valentin,

Thanks for the reply.  I'd reached the same conclusion that it should work.

I'm also going to look at using Prism so that I can use their commanding for the tab and other controls.  But as for the tab content, I am going to put that in a user control.

Thanks,

Jeff