Question

I have a simple application where I have a main screen with some operations, and a second screen that you access when first one is done and you press a button. See image:

Brown areas are fixed left menus, that will always appear in the same location.
Blue areas are the screens that change from one to another.
Red area is trying to simulate a MDIContainer from WindowsForms.

How can I simulate that container to:

1. Mantain the left static menu

2. Change dynamically my content due to some events/actions?

Answer 1

<Grid>
    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
        <ColumnDefinition Width="2*"/>
    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <RowDefinition Height="*"/>
    </Grid.RowDefinitions>
    <TextBlock Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Text="Static"/>
    <ContentControl x:Name="content1" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" Visibility="Visible" >
        <StackPanel>
            <TextBlock Text="One" />
            <Button Click="btn1_click" Content="Button1"/>
        </StackPanel>
    </ContentControl>
    <ContentControl x:Name="content2" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" Visibility="Hidden" >
        <StackPanel>
            <TextBlock Text="Two" />
            <Button Click="btn2_click" Content="Button2"/>
        </StackPanel>
    </ContentControl>
</Grid>

        private void btn1_click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            content1.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Hidden;
            content2.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
        }

        private void btn2_click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            content1.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
            content2.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Hidden;
        }

If you can put the button above like in a menu area
Can do me dynamic stuff with Frame and Page content
This example shows passing data to the Page constructor
nextPage is a Page
could also be a UserControl

<Frame Name="SrchItemEditField" />

PageDocFieldDetail nextPage = new PageDocFieldDetail(df);
SrchItemEditField.Content = nextPage;