I\'m working on a small wpf project using c#. I have 2 windows. When I go from one window to the next, i need to have some items preselected on the 2nd window. I have a check
I'd say that you should move towards pushing the view model into the view via IoC or some other fashion. Tie the value to a property and let the framework make your life easier via binding, instead of having to hard code values all over the place.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752347.aspx