Link a RibbonTab to its own Workspace

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I'm trying to create a workspace for each RibbonTab of my app. But I'm struggling to workout the best method to do this. RibbonTabs are setup as:

<r:RibbonTab Label="Home" Behaviors:SingleEventCommand.RoutedEventName="Selected" Behaviors:SingleEventCommand.TheCommandToRun="{Binding Tab_HomeSelected}" >
<r:RibbonGroup Name="Documentation" Command="{StaticResource DocumentationGroupCommand}">
<r:RibbonButton Command="{StaticResource GeneralDocCommand}" />
<r:RibbonButton Command="{StaticResource FactsDocCommand}" />
</r:RibbonGroup>
</r:RibbonTab>
<r:RibbonTab Label="Config" Behaviors:SingleEventCommand.RoutedEventName="Selected" Behaviors:SingleEventCommand.TheCommandToRun="{Binding Tab_ConfigSelected}" >
<r:RibbonGroup Name="Documents" Command="{StaticResource DocumentGroupCommand}">
<r:RibbonButton Command="{StaticResource DocsCommand}" />
</r:RibbonGroup>
</r:RibbonTab>

The workspaces/viewmodels are currently inside a Tabcontrol

<local:TabControlEx x:Name="tabControl"
IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True"
ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Workspaces}"
Template="{StaticResource MainTabControlTemplateEx}">
</local:TabControlEx>

public MainViewModel()
{
#region Workspaces
///Build workspace areas for each ribbon tab
Workspaces = new ObservableCollection<ViewModelBase>();
Workspaces.CollectionChanged += this.OnWorkspacesChanged;

HomeViewModel vmH = new HomeViewModel();
vmH.IsCloseable = false;
Workspaces.Add(vmH);

ConfigViewModel vmCf = new ConfigViewModel();
vmCf.IsCloseable = false;
Workspaces.Add(vmCf);

tabH = new SimpleCommand
{
CanExecuteDelegate = x => true,
ExecuteDelegate = x => ExecuteCommandHome()
};
tabC = new SimpleCommand
{
CanExecuteDelegate = x =&gt; true,
ExecuteDelegate = x =&gt; ExecuteCommandConfig()
};

}
public ICommand Tab_HomeSelected { get {return tabH; } }
public ICommand Tab_ConfigSelected { get {return tabC; } }

This method works currently when switching from one RibbonTab to another but the tabcontrol also shows the tab headings for each Ribbontab... not very nice. Does anybody have a better solution or suggestion as to how this could work? Many Thanks

Christian Graus

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