MonoTouch.Dialog with custom base UIViewController

Question

I have a requirement to have all controllers inherit from a single base controller. However, some controllers use MonoTouch.Dialog, which requires the DialogViewController.

Is it possible to create a UIViewController, and internally, create a DialogViewController and replace (or AddSubView) the UIViewController's view with the one created from the DialogViewController?

What about rotations? memory warnings? etc? Is this recommended? Is there an alternative approach?

Answer 1

You can use UIViewController containment.

This is a new feature on iOS 6:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/CreatingCustomContainerViewControllers/CreatingCustomContainerViewControllers.html

http://www.cocoanetics.com/2012/04/containing-viewcontrollers/