Property CanBeCached

Gets a value indicating whether the view model and its associated view can be cached in the navigation stacks. Defaults to false, meaning a fresh view model and view are created every time the route is navigated to.

Declaration
bool CanBeCached { get; }
Property Value
Type Description
bool

Return true to keep the view model and view alive while they are inactive so that returning to them (e.g. by navigating back) is instant and preserves their state. A cached view model is navigated to again on the same instance, so OnNavigatedToAsync(NavigationArgs) must handle being called repeatedly (e.g. by skipping work that was already done and not subscribing to events twice). If a parent view model that provided services to a child view model is evicted from cache then all of its children are also evicted.

Use ConfigureNavigationStacks(int, int, int) to control the maximum depth of cached views and view models.