WPF Magellan: is there a way to navigate to a existing view?

Question

I'm using the excellent Magellan navigation framework from Paul Stovell.

When you have this method in the controller

Public Function Save(ByVal Contact As Contact) As ActionResult
    Try
        Contact.Save()
        Return Index() ''//Call other action result that brings the list of contacts
    Catch ex As Exception
        Return New CancelResult
    End Try
End Function

Is there a way that Index does not create another view, but navigate to the existing one (if exists)?
Is there a way to destroy a View (in this case, the contact view, which is not longer valid because the record is already saved in the DB)

Hi Eduardo, what kinds of views are you using? Are they Windows or pages? By reusing the view, do you mean to re-focus on the view? Let me know and I'll show how a ViewEngine can be used to achieve this. — Paul Stovell, Nov 25 '09 at 22:46
I'm using pages and yes, re-focus in the view (going back or forward in the navigation). — Eduardo Molteni, Nov 26 '09 at 04:53

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '09 at 01:25

You may be able to accomplish this using the Action and Result Filters feature:

http://www.paulstovell.com/magellan-action-and-view-filters

You could use OnResultExecuted to track the page that was rendered. Then you could handle OnResultExecuting to see the target page - if it's a page that exists in the navigation journal, you could issue GoBack/GoForward commands to navigate back to the page.

WPF Magellan: is there a way to navigate to a existing view?

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