Magellan is a lightweight framework that makes it easy to build WPF navigation applications. It is inspired by the ASP.NET MVC framework. The main features are:

• Model-View-Controller support


• Action filters for cross-cutting concerns such as authorization and redirection


• Blend behaviors to make navigation easy


• Transitions between pages

Magellan was drawn from a number of samples I had put together early this year and some work done on a client project.

• Download the library


• Download the source code (with sample application)

The source download includes an "iPhone" application for demonstrating the features.

We start with a simple project structure:

A controller implementation typically looks like this:

Views are XAML Page objects, and can optionally have a model. Here's an example:

The idea is that upon navigation, a controller i