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WPF application in one window

I am new in WPF and want to create WPF application like cookbook. I already done this and app work correctly. But I make it in this way:
First screen show buttons, which open new windows to do something. As a result i have 14 different windows. It is ok, but now i want to make it in other way.
I am trying to make one window, which will be showed at start, and change content. I divided window on two grids. First is static and is placed on bottom. It contains buttons, which represents functionality of the program. Second one will be dynamic. There i want to show content of every window. So i want to change content of this panel instead of creating new windows.
I tried to make *.cs files which will create controls in code-behind, functions and data. But my idea is not succesful and i do not know how to do this.
At all, I want to create app, which will work like this:
- if you click button "Add receip" then app will show controls to add name, ingredients and save it at the end.
- if you clik "Show receip" previous content will be replaced by list of ingredients
and etc.
I hope you will understand me.

You can create a Frame instead of second grid. Frame allows you to show pages, and not in seperate windows, in Frame itself. You can navigate the frame into the page like
mainFrame.Source = new Uri("Page1.xaml",UriKind.Relative);
This changes the frame to your page. You can change the source again, if you wanna change the page again.
Note: You can add tags to your buttons like "showReceip" and you can make just one buttonclick event for your buttons. Code will look like this.
mainFrame.Source = new Uri((sender as Button).Tag.ToString() + ".xaml",UriKind.Relative);
That takes the tag of your clicked button, add the string ".xaml" on it and take it on the source part. So, if your tag is "Page1", Source will look like "Page1.xaml" as my solution.

Appreciate the try, I hope you are looking for WPF user controls instead for separate windows. User controls are similar to windows you can create the UI and functionalities in the user control. I would like to recommend you to design the main window like the following:
<Grid>
<Canvas Name="canFunctionalButtons">
<!--Define the buttons inside this canvas
And allocate proper place for this in the UI
-->
</Canvas>
<Canvas Name="canControlContainer">
<!--This is to display the user control
Which can be changed dynamically according to the Button's click
-->
</Canvas>
</Grid>
Then you have to add click event for those buttons, which will add specific user control to the canControlContainer canvas. An example for adding an user control to this canvas is as follows, Let btnAddSomething be a button and btnAddSomething_Click be its click event then you can do something like:
private void btnAddSomething_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
canControlContainer.Children.Clear(); // will remove previous contols from this canvas
// UC_AddSomething be the user control that you wanted to add here
canControlContainer.Children.Add(new UC_AddSomething());
}

Disabling Dialog Flashing C#

I have a populated ListView dialog. If a user clicks on an option in the ListView, a new dialog is shown above the ListView.
My problems is that when I click off of the new top-most dialog (onto the ListView behind it), the new dialog's borders flash/blink several times. The icon on the taskbar also flashes. I wish to disable the flashing, but cannot find a property to change.
To show my dialog, I use the following code:
if (detail == null)
detail = new Details(opt, val, user, desc, m_l);
else
detail = null;
detail.ShowDialog();

This is intended behavior, it's because the new dialog is modal. It's drawing attention to the fact that something needs to be done.
If you need to make a non-modal form, instead of using ShowDialog(), simply use Show().

Sounds like to me you are creating modal windows each time. And you cannot resume the previous dialogs until you dismiss your new top-most window.
Take a look at this wikipedia article for information about modal dialogs.
I would advise you look at how you are creating/showing your windows.
In WPF you show windows via Show() or ShowDialog(), however, I do not know which type of ListView you are using
EDIT:
Per your comment, you want modal dialogs. The only ways I can think of even trying to remove the flashing is going into WINAPI. This doesn't seem like a job for .NET.
I want to suggest a few things:
Take a look at options for showing each window. See this MSDN page
Take a look at the options for styling each window. See this MSDN page
Reconsider your design. I know this may take a lot of work, but having so many layers of windows is kind of unappealing to most users. Ultimately, I believe this option will make your application the best.

Thank you all for your answers and guidance. I have found the best way to handle my problem.
I was using an event ItemActivated. This event was called when an a highlighted item on the ListView was clicked. This became a problem when the user would double click on an already selected item. This would cause the new dialog to show, but also flash several times.
By using the DoubleClick event instead, a single click on a selected object does nothing. A double click on either a selected or non-selected item opens the dialog without the flashes. The flashes still appear if you try to click off of the dialog box, but are not as much of an issue.

Dock Windows Forms (tabbed chat interface)

Edit for those who say to use tab control
I would love to use a tab control; yet i have no idea how to go about linking the tab control up from the main form. I would assume that I would have to do something like this:
Create Form with a blank TabControl on it, no pages created.
Create a CustomuserControl (Add -> user Control), with my controls on it.
When a new chat comes in, create a tab control Item, Tab Control Page, add the Custom Control to the Tab Control Page. Add the tab control handle to the hash table, so that when new messages come in, they can be referenced in the proper control.
But, i am so not sure how to do this. For example, I know that I can create custom events inside of the User Control, so that, for example, if each control has a 'bold' button, i can each page that has that control on it, to actually USE the button.
Yet i also need to register message callbacks, so that I can use a MessageGrabber to send data to it, and tha'ts not assigned inside of the UserControl, that's assigned programatically when a new window comes in; but since I have no controls to reference, i can't assign.
KISS Philosophy
Wouldn't it be easier to just create the form, like i do now, and then just dock that form within a window or something? So that, in essence, it's still creating the form, but it's also a separate window?
Original Question
Okay, so i'm stumped (which isn't that big of a surprise when it comes to complex C# logic lol)! What i'm trying to do is the following:
Goal: Setup tabbed chatting for new chat application.
Completed: Open new window whenever a chat message is received, or a user requests a new chat from the roster. This is working perfectly, and opens only a window when the user doesn't already have the chat open. Nice and happy there.
Problem: I dont want windows. Well, i do want A window, but, i do not want tons of separate windows. For example, our Customer Service team may have about 10 active IM windows going at one time, i do not want them to have to have 10 windows tiled there lol. I'd rather they have a single Private IM window, and all 10 tabs docked within the window.
Logic: This is my logic here, which may be flawed, i do apologize:
OnMessage: Open new chat window if one doesn't already exist; if one exists, open it as a tab within the current chat window.
SendMessage: ^^ ditto ^^
Code Examples:
if (!Util.ChatForms.ContainsKey(msg.From.Bare))
{
RosterNode rn = rosterControl1.GetRosterItem(msg.From);
string nick = msg.From.Bare;
if (rn != null)
nick = rn.Text;
frmChat f = new frmChat(msg.From, xmpp, nick);
f.Show();
f.IncomingMessage(msg);
return;
}
Note on above: The Util. function just keeps tracks of what windows are opened inside of a hashtable, that way, when messages come in, they route to the proper window. That is added with the:
Util.ChatForms.Add(m_Jid.Bare.ToLower(), this);
Command in the frmChat() form.
Library in Use: agsxmpp from: http://www.ag-software.de/agsxmpp-sdk/download/
Problem:
How can i convert this code to open inside of tabs, instead of windows? Can someone please give me some ideas, and help with that. I just can't seem to wrap my head around that concept.

Use TabControl

Multi-Page WPF Application

I am new to desktop application development and have a pretty basic question. I have a WPF form named MainWindow, how should I go about having multiple pages on this, such as "User Management", "Manage Content" etc..
I think I have the following options:
Use multiple forms
Tabs
Group Box?
Any clarification would be great!

Well in my most recent application I started by using a TabControl, that's a safe and rather easy way to go.
Recently switched the tabcontrol with a StackPanel with a series of Expanders inside. I styled the expanders to have them display the header vertically and expand horizontally... somewhat similar to the first xbox dashboard. And it looks and works great! =)
Another alternative would be to use a Page instead of a window... Then you would just have to Navigate to each different page.
EDIT:
Here's an example of a multi-page application... might be close to what you need.

The solution I went with that suited what I was looking for was using WPF Pages but thanks for your answers.

There are many ways to do that, such as creating UserControl and show them in the run time.But using TabControl is fast and safe.
Just Use TabControl and place your pages in tab items .Then hide the header of TabControl by setting the value Visibility="Collapsed" to each TabItem.
The result is as below:
As you see the headers are hide and you can switch to each page you want.

Create
usercontrol(wpf): UserManagement
usercontrol2(wpf) : ManageContent
place control "ContentControl" in the main window
Run the code on click of button:
//Displays usercontrol1
contentControl.content = new UserManagement();
//Displays usercontrol2
contentControl.content = new ManageContent();
Hope this helps you.

I'd like to give you an example of something I have in one of my applications.
The app has two windows: the main window and another one (also derived from Window and equipped with the appropriate buttons and event handlers) that is used as a start dialog. The start dialog is called in the constructor of the main window like this:
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
startdlg m_dlg;
// ...
public MainWindow()
{
m_dlg = new startdlg();
if ((bool)m_dlg.ShowDialog())
{
// ...
}
else
{
Close();
}
// ...

C# : WPF Mouse Over

I need to create a WPF application , which contains two windows.. the window1 contains a button. i need to show the second window when the cursor is over the button in first window
[ Like tooltip ] . if the mouse leaves, the second window should close..
I'm new to WPF. can any one help me with a sample code

If it is possible to do without your second window something like this is usually done in a tooltip, which has exactly that behaviour. (e.g. http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mahesh/FancyWPFTooltip07132008214937PM/FancyWPFTooltip.aspx)

Check out System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.Popup. It is maybe what you are seeking.