Add PRISM Region Manager In Existing Navigation Window

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Published on 2010-05-07T19:14:43Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 19:18 UTC
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We have a "legacy" WPF applicaton that is based on a NavigationWindow. The NavigationWindow has a fairly large ControlTemplate that houses a ContentPresenter as so:

<ControlTemplate>
    ....snip...
<ContentPresenter x:Name="PART_NavWinCP" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"/>
    .....snip....
    </ControlTemplate>

What we want to do is use that ContentPresenter as the first tab and dynamically add other tabs at run time. Like this:

    <ControlTemplate>
....snip...
<TabControl Background="Transparent" cal:RegionManager.RegionName="MainRegion" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
       <TabItem Header="Nav Window Content">
           <ContentPresenter x:Name="PART_NavWinCP" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"/>
       </TabItem>
    </TabControl>
.....snip....
</ControlTemplate>

Then our Modules grab the RegionName and insert their content dynamically. The issue seems to be that the PRISM region manager doesn't like that our code is in a ContentTemplate and cannot resolve the region. I have tried updating the RegionManager, adding the Region dynamically, just having a root tab control without the ContentPresenter, but I cannot get this to work. Any ideas?

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