Silverlight Super Tabs Interface (using View Model / MVVM)

A User Interface That You Will Either Love Or Hate

Live example: http://silverlight.adefwebserver.com/SimpleAttendanceTabWeb

I love Tabs. Using Tabs is like placing sheets of paper on your desk for easy retrieval, rather than going into your file cabinet each time you need something.

I am working on a Silverlight client for my popular ADefHelpDesk.com Open Source project, and after watching users of the current program open up multiple web browser windows, to easily return to a Help Desk Ticket they were working on, I realized that the Silverlight version needed to use Tabs.

The problem I ran into was, that there was no easy way to have the main search screen as a Tab, and the other Help Desk Ticket Tabs in the same Tab control. A Silverlight Tab control wants to bind to a collection of a single type.

The answer, as in most cases, is to simply use Behaviors.

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