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One of the main advantages of the hierarchical View composition is the fact that we can access the members of other Views from a given View. So, as we have seen in the previous article, we can access the members of the host (parent) View by simply calling this.Host property on the current View.
Accessing other Views, however, has several limitations which one should bear in mind.
In the image above, we see two different routes. If you are accessing the orange route (ControlPanel.ProductsView.ProductNewView), first the ControlPanel View will be loaded, then the ProductsView View will be loaded and finally the ProductNewView View will be loaded. The last loaded View is always the current View, and on the screen the user interface of that View will be displayed.
There are certain workarounds for these limitations, but with proper design of the hierarchy, these limitations never present a problem. In the overview of the ViewModeControl class, which comes at the end of this series, we will examine various properties that will give us sufficient information about Views on either side of the hierarchy.
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