WPF: switching UserControls depending on corresponding ViewModels (MVVM)

Question

I\'ll try to simplify the task I\'m working on by imagining this example:

Let\'s suppose that we have the following hierarchy of model classes:

Animal
           


        

Answer 1

Is it possible to deduce the necessary user control based on a ViewModel type?

You mean, like this?

See "Applying a View to a View Model" in Josh Smith's article on MVVM.

Edit:

Here's a trivial example of type-based template selection that you can paste into Kaxaml to prove to yourself that it really works:

  
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