Why do tab controls reuse View instances when changing tab

Question

I have a WPF project following an MVVM pattern.

I have one control that contains a tab control. The tab control binds to an observable collection. Each item in the o

Answer 1

A TabControl does recycling virtualization internally. You can find two different approaches to prevent this in this StackOverflow questions:

• WPF TabControl - how to preserve control state within tab items (MVVM pattern)