I have a WinRT app which is up and running nicely using the INavigationService (FrameAdapter). The problem is all of the pages in my app are full pages and they repeat a lot of view xaml markup. What I would like to do would be to have more of a "MasterPages" type of architecture where I have a shell view which defines the main layout and contains a ContentControl and uses the Conductor pattern to switch out the contents of the ContentControl. I have had success with this sort of architecture in the past with WPF and Silverlight so I assume it is possible in WinRT.
The problem is there seems to be a disconnect between the navigation infrastructure (using the FrameAdapter) and the Conductor infrastructure using a ContentControl bound to the ActiveItem of the conductor (like the SimpleNavigation sample).
In the conductor scenario I use ActivateItem() but with the INavigationService I use NavigateToViewModel<T>() and the two don't seem to be connected as far as I can tell.
One idea I had was to create a ConductorNavigationService which implements INavigationService and basically handles the creation and activation of the child screens. While it seems possible it doesn't seem very straight forward so I figured I would check here to see if there is an already supported way to do this.