How to select a view from a viewmodel if different views share the same viewmodel

Question

Since some of my views have similar functions, I want to be able to share the same viewmodel with each view. My idea is to pass a token to the viewmodel's constructor, but this will lead to many if and else statements in my code. Any ideas that I can avoid too many if else statement?

Answer 1

Use inheritance and datatemplate. Create a base class viewmodel and virtual functions. Override them with different functionality. Then use datatemplate to load the different views according to the view model you need.