MVVM & VS2010 - Is there a way to specify the tabcontrol without adding code in codebehind

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I need to place Tabcontrol and need to stick on MVVM pattern. however I am unable to do that without writing code in codebehind. As of now I have one default tab and subsequent tab contents are dynamic

Posted 16-Oct-12 9:18am

Milan Mathew

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Clifford Nelson · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-16T10:07:00

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Definately, in fact it is quite easy. Here is an example: MVVM TabControl[^]. Any WPF control that has an ItemsSource should be easy to use with MVVM.

Posted 16-Oct-12 10:07am

Clifford Nelson

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Milan Mathew 17-Oct-12 4:10am

In VS2010 there is no direct option to Add a tabcontrol (can add tabconrol directly but if we want to add additional tabs programmatically) without placing code in your codebehind. Which basically breaks the MVVM pattern principles.
So looking for a solution to add a new tab programmatically without adding code in codebehind.

Clifford Nelson 17-Oct-12 12:29pm

The WPF TabControl has an ItemsControl DependencyProperty, which allows you to have a collection of ViewModels that can control the tabs. Now you want to have different content in the Tabs which can be handled with a ValueConverter using the ViewModel type to decide which usercontrol to display in the tab. Please note that the