How to navigate to a View?

[aWeinzierl]

Hi,
I am trying to navigate to a new View/Page in a Frame.
Therefore, Frame seems to have, for instance, the following method:

// Frame
pub fn Navigate3<'a>(
    &self,
    sourcepagetype: impl IntoParam<'a, TypeName>
) -> Result<bool>

Unfortunately, I fail to find a way to get a suitable argument using an existing View (extending Windows::UI::Xaml::Controls::Page)

[kennykerr]

This requires type-loading support for Xaml that is not currently provided by the Windows crate. There's an issue on the Xaml team to support Rust, but it doesn't look like they have any immediate plans to invest in this area.

microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#2488

[kennykerr]

For what its worth, here's a very low-level way to do the type-loading in C++:

https://github.com/kennykerr/binding/blob/master/Simpler/xaml.h

This should work in Rust, but this API is very very hard to use as it was designed for .NET and really doesn't work well for anything else.

I'd expect that the Windows crate could conceivably implement this for you automatically at some point in the future.