Multi-Page WPF Application

Question

I am new to desktop application development and have a pretty basic question. I have a WPF form named MainWindow, how should I go about having multiple pages on this, such as "User Management", "Manage Content" etc..

I think I have the following options:

1. Use multiple forms
2. Tabs
3. Group Box?

Any clarification would be great!

Answer 1

• Well in my most recent application I started by using a TabControl, that's a safe and rather easy way to go.

• Recently switched the tabcontrol with a StackPanel with a series of Expanders inside. I styled the expanders to have them display the header vertically and expand horizontally... somewhat similar to the first xbox dashboard. And it looks and works great! =)

• Another alternative would be to use a Page instead of a window... Then you would just have to Navigate to each different page.

EDIT: Here's an example of a multi-page application... might be close to what you need.

Answer 2

The solution I went with that suited what I was looking for was using WPF Pages but thanks for your answers.