Vista - Problems Using Frames

I am having a problem. please allow me to explain.

my application is essentially an empty shell which contains 2 frames. A menu
gets loaded into the first frame, and the other frame displays different
content, depending upon which menu item a user clicks. The layout is shown
below. I like this architecture because it gives me good code separation. It
means I can keep my menu logic in one file, and I can separate my content
logic into different files:

<Window> Main.xaml
| |
Frame 1 Frame 2
| |
<Page> Menu.xaml <Page> Content.xaml

In order for this model to work, I must be able to update the content of
Frame 2 whenever a user clicks a menu item in Frame 1. I have make Main.xaml
of type <Page> then this works fine. But if Main.xaml is of type <Window>
then I receive the following error message: "Hyperlink target not found."

Could anybody explain to me why this happens? Also ideally I do not want
Main.xaml to be of type <Page> because I don't want a navigation bar to be
displayed at the top of my application. Any ideas how I can get around this
problem and still maintain the architecture above?

thanks.

You can specify ShowsNavigationUI as false on the Page, and get rid of the
navigation bar.

--
Ashish Shetty [MSFT]
Program Manager, Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon)
Blog: http://nerddawg.blogspot.com
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"Fidget Brain" <no.spam@martinthrelly@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I am having a problem. please allow me to explain.
>
> my application is essentially an empty shell which contains 2 frames. A
> menu gets loaded into the first frame, and the other frame displays
> different content, depending upon which menu item a user clicks. The
> layout is shown below. I like this architecture because it gives me good
> code separation. It means I can keep my menu logic in one file, and I can
> separate my content logic into different files:
>
> <Window> Main.xaml
> | |
> Frame 1 Frame 2
> | |
> <Page> Menu.xaml <Page> Content.xaml
>
> In order for this model to work, I must be able to update the content of
> Frame 2 whenever a user clicks a menu item in Frame 1. I have make
> Main.xaml of type <Page> then this works fine. But if Main.xaml is of type
> <Window> then I receive the following error message: "Hyperlink target not
> found."
>
> Could anybody explain to me why this happens? Also ideally I do not want
> Main.xaml to be of type <Page> because I don't want a navigation bar to be
> displayed at the top of my application. Any ideas how I can get around
> this problem and still maintain the architecture above?
>
> thanks.
>