Same view showed twice

Question

I would like to implement a "Module Switcher" in my application, which brings up an alt-tab like interface showing the open modules.

Right now it is structured like this

                ModuleShellView
                ModuleSwitcherView
         Module 1    Module 2    Module 3

ModuleSwitcherView is opened as a dialog from ModuleShellView and binds to the currently open Modules.

This causes the active module in the screen behind to transition to nothing. Is there a way to keep the view open in the background, while displaying it in another dialog? The alt-tab window only needs a "view" of the view, it doesn't need to be interactive.

Answer 1

I have found a workaround for this. Rather than show the contentcontrol, I am grabbing the view instance, writing it to a WriteableBitmap and then using that.