Implicit DataTemplate equivalent for Silverlight + Prism

Question

I'm building an Silverlight application which consists of a grid containing multiple different widgets. Each widget is implemented as a ViewModel class which are then binded to grid.

With WPF I'd use implicit DataTemplates to bind certain ViewModel to a certain View. But since Silverlight doesn't support this feature I'm a bit stuck.

So far I've only thought of implementing some sort of global DataTemplateSelector to which each Prism module would register matching ViewModel and View pairs at startup. Then I could use Unity to inject this selector to grid and achieve what I want but this doesn't feel like the best way to do it.

Any ideas how should I do this?

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pousi pousi · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-16T11:16:45

I did some more googling and found few articles about TemplateContentControl (e.g. http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/arielbh/archive/2010/10/24/how-to-develop-mvvm-silverlight-applications-with-prism.aspx) and after some testing it seems to be just what I was looking for.

Implicit DataTemplate equivalent for Silverlight + Prism

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