Prism for Silverlight: How to maintain views in a specific order inside a region

Question

I am creating sort of a \"Navigation panel\" (which is actually an ItemControl) for SL and using Regions to allow each module to add his link to the panel.

Problem i

Answer 1

In Prism4 you just apply the ViewSortHintAttribute to your views:

[ViewSortHint("100")]
class FirstView : UserControl { }

[ViewSortHint("200")]
class SecondView : UserControl { }

The default sort comparer on the regions will pick up this attribute and sort the views accordingly. You can put any string into the attribute but I tend to use medium sized numbers that allow me to easily put a new view in between existing ones.