mdi equivalent for WPF

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Which is the control used instead of MDI in WPF? I am doing a project which needs an MDI. I came to know that WPF doesn't support MDI and Microsoft is encouraging Ribbon Framework and Tabbed control, page and Frame instead of MDI. Please help me which is the best one I can use as MDI?

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Posted 26-Dec-10 6:58am

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Updated 26-Dec-10 7:00am

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2010-12-26T07:01:00

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WPF does not support the MDI paradigm. That's one of the reasons VS2010 (in its own UI) doesn't support it anymore either. People have complained, but I don't know if MS is going to take steps.

Posted 26-Dec-10 7:01am

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dmageiras · Answer 2 · 2010-12-26T07:50:00

John is right (5 from me). I just want to report my experience on this matter: One of my projects was initially designed with Windows.Forms / MDI. Later on, when I moved to WPF, I have used tab control with success. Of course it is a totally different design, it has nothing to do with MDI, but from the user point of view, it is very alike, especially now that most users are used with tab browsing. My application users didn't complain and got used to to the new design quickly.

Wild-Programmer · Answer 3 · 2010-12-27T01:36:00

Solution 4

You can use PRISM (Composite UI). Read its tutorial to get indepth idea about that. You can implement MDI using that.

Posted 27-Dec-10 1:36am

Wild-Programmer