Question

I basically need a section of the screen to have an “authentication” box where, if you’re logged in then it displays your user name and a “switch user” button, but if you’re not logged in, it just displays a login button.

I could have two completely different controls, put them both on the screen and bind their visibility property to IsAuthenticated, but I was hoping there were some good suggestions out there for a better way.

Thanks

Answer 1

Since you mention binding the visibility I’ll show what I did to solve a similar problem.

In your App.xaml put

<Application.Resources>
    <BooleanToVisibilityConverter x:Key="VisibilityOfBool" />
</Application.Resources>

For every control you wish to control the visibility via a boolean property in your view model you can simply do this.

Visibility="{Binding IsEditable, Converter={StaticResource VisibilityOfBool}}"

This will toggle the visibility of the control based on IsEditable.