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Asked: 2026-05-23T01:30:26+00:00

I am using implicit DataTemplates of Silverlight 5 to wire ViewModel and View. In

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I am using implicit DataTemplates of Silverlight 5 to wire ViewModel and View.

In my MainView there is a TabControl (from Telerik) which is bound to an ObservableCollection of the MainViewModel. And for all possible ViewModel-types within that Collection there is a DataTemplate which defines the corresponding View (=Tab).

Very clean and totally decoupled.

But now I need to write code that’s really only related to the Views: I want to manually merge a Ribbon of the selected Tab to the Ribbon of the MainView.
The ViewModels don’t have any knowledge of their corresponding View and do not know anything about a UI Element like a Ribbon (which is a good thing). So this is one of the very rare occasions where I need to write code-behind.

I tried the SelectionChanged Event of the TabControl, but all properties (SelectedItem, SelectedValue, …) point to the ViewModel and not to the View.

How do I get the View – which was wired by Silverlight 5 using a DataTemplate??

Thanks for any ideas!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Short answer, you don’t. Use an event aggregator or a messenger class with strongly typed constraints.

    One good implementation with MVVM-Light is the Messenger class, see this article for info.

    http://blog.galasoft.ch/archive/2009/09/27/mvvm-light-toolkit-messenger-v2-beta.aspx

    Anyhow you should be able to have the ribbon message the tab via messengers if i’m understanding you right.

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