IViewResolver

As we have already wrote when we spoke about Runtime Conventions Radical utilizes by default a view first approach, that even if is completely replaceable with a ViewModel first approach, must be understood.
The main and only entry point used to resolve views is IViewResolver interface whose role is to resolve a view instance given a view type:
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IViewResolver service; //injected by the IoC engine
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var viewUsingGenerics = service.GetView<SampleView>();
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var viewUsingType = service.GetView( typeof( SampleView ) );
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At runtime when the GetView method is called the default built-in view resolver does the following things:
1.goes to the IoC container and resolves an instance of the requested view type;
2.if the view already has a DataContext it assumes that the view is a singleton and has been already resolved once and immediately returns the resolved view;
3.Otherwise, using the conventions:
4.Using the ResolveViewModelType convention determines the type of the associated ViewModel;
5.Resolves, via the container, the ViewModel;
6.Set the relation View – ViewModel;
7.Set the ViewModel as the DataContext of the View;
8.Attaches to the View the required behaviors;
9.Exposes services registered to be exposed as resources in the View
10.Returns the view to the caller;
How to use the IViewResolver in our application
The typical usage of the view resolver in the application is to open/show another view, the easiest way is to declare a dependency on the resolver in our component:
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class SampleViewModel
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{
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    readonly IViewResolver service;
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​
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    public SampleViewModel( IViewResolver service )
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    {
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        this.service = service;
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    }
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​
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    public void ShowAView()
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    {
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        var myView = this.service.GetView<MyView>();
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        myView.Show();
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    }
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}
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We are using the simplest possible approach in order to keep the sample complexity really low.
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In the above sample we are violating the MVVM pattern because we are dealing with a view within the ViewModel, in the chapter related to the MessageBroker we’ll see how to avoid this mix.
A view does not require a view model to work properly, the IViewResolver can resolve views that don't have view models;

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