How to Navigate from One Page to Another in WPF

Question

I have a MainWindow.XAML and CustomersView.XAML.

When I click the Customer Button on MainWindow , I want to navigate to CustomersView.XAML and palong with that need to pass few parameters.

I can use NavigationService but is only available with Pages and not Window.Hyperlink is not an option at this moment.

This might be fairly simple thing but not sure how can I implement this using MVVM and with out any third party control.

Answer 1

private void Navigate_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)//By Prince Jain 
{
   this.NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri("Page3.xaml", UriKind.Relative));
}

Answer 2

There are many options to navigate from one window to another in WPF. You can use a frame in your MainWindow and navigate all your pages right inside your Frame.

<Window 
    x:Class="NavigationSample.Window1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300">
    <DockPanel>
        <Frame x:Name="_mainFrame" />
    </DockPanel>
</Window>

From code, you can tell the frame to navigate, like so:

_mainFrame.Navigate(new Page1());

Which just so happens to be a helpful shortcut to:

_mainFrame.NavigationService.Navigate(new Page1());

Or if you using any framework like PRISM, you are allowed to create a Shell where you can define regions and let your pages navigate to that.

Navigation Using the Prism Library 5.0 for WPF