What pattern helps to compose nested views at runtime?

Question

Are there any design patterns to compose views within a parent view during runtime? Say we are composing the views in a workflow tab and views in the tabcontrol depend on the country, store type and/or other conditions.

This is a MVP, WPF, PRISM application.

Answer 1

The closest design pattern I can think of is decorator pattern. That said, are you nesting views, or enabling/disabling/auto-populating fields based on other selections in the UI, in which case you may want to use the strategy pattern?

Answer 2

Would a some form of Factory suffice?

I'm thinking something along the lines of

    var dynamicView = ViewFactory.CreateView(countryCode, storeType, otherConditions);
    Render(dynamicView);

or

    var countryView = CountryViewFactory.Create(countryCode);
    var storeTypeView = StoreTypeViewFactory.Create(storeType);
    var otherView = OtherViewFactory.Create(otherConditions);
    RenderPartial("CountrySection", countryView);
    RenderPartial("StoreTypeSection", storeTypeView);
    RenderPartial("OtherSection", otherView);