Comments on: Silverlight 3 Navigation: Navigating to Pages in dynamically-loaded assemblies

By: david.poll

david.poll — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:40:15 +0000

I think MEF and Prism are both useful frameworks within the confines of how they’re intended to be used. My experience with MEF has been that it’s more naturally suited to the “optional” scenarios.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:39:50 +0000

Question: From what I have seen of MEF and Prism, they are very suitable for plug-ins, but I find their application to general add-ons, e.g., an new application you’d like to load in a shell application that is not “required” per se, to be less than intuitive. Am I off base?

By: Masha

Masha — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:29:04 +0000

Thanks for your response, David!
I’m still using SL3, but maybe your solution will give me any ideas. Thank you!

By: david.poll

david.poll — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:55:14 +0000

Masha,

If you’re using SL4, I’ve actually built a whole library out for this: http://www.davidpoll.com/2010/02/01/on-demand-loading-of-assemblies-with-silverlight-navigation-revisited-for-silverlight-4-beta/

Take a look

-David

By: Masha

Masha — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:30:09 +0000

Hi David,

Thanks for an extremely helpful example! But I have one question – in your example you’re loading a dll to use Navigation, and all I have is a .xap file. Is it possible to load a xap file and then use the Navigation framework with i?

Thanks!
Masha

By: Moin

Moin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:58:11 +0000

Hi David,

Thanks a lot for this post. It is really helpful.
How can we dynamically load a silverlight navigation application XAP through a navigation application.
I mean, after dynamically loading an assembly, I still want to navigate through different pages in the loaded assembly.
Can you suggest any workaround?

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:16:04 +0000

Thanks David. And I found a way to simplify the solution. For example: in the project of AdditionalPages, Replace the content of ProductsPage.dyn.xaml as follow:

It works well.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:11:19 +0000

I also tried to implement this kind of framework, but encounter problems because ModuleManager doesn’t load module synchronous (so I don’t know when the module is ready).

By: Sven

Sven — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:37:05 +0000

Good article, lame constraint

By: david.poll

david.poll — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:39:34 +0000

This isn’t meant to be a framework for building general componentized applications. This particular post is meant to show how you can load pages in assemblies that Prism has loaded for you.