Question

I´m creating a smal WPF-Application with 5 Tabs and I´m wondering if it´s a good idea to seperate the tabs into UserControls. I think it is nice because my XAML-Code is about 400 alines and grows but at the other side i think it´s much work to pass the events to my main window and slows it down. Maybe i could work with the events at the UserControls but then I need solutions to have access to variables in my main window.

So what would you recommend me?

Answer 1

It really depends on how simple your application is and how resilient to change it needs to be. If this is a throw away app then no, you don’t need to split things out into user controls, but it may make your life a bit easier. We can’t tell you what you should do because we don’t know your requirements, but creating a user control will definitely make your code easier to change in the future (or during development even) if needed.

Since you mentioned that this is a relatively small app, use this as a general rule; the moment that managing the controls in each tab becomes a problem, wrap them in a UserControl.

but at the other side i think it´s much work to pass the events to my main window and slows it down.

It’s not a lot of work and it definitely isn’t going to cause performance problems.