MVVM Light 5.0: How to use the Navigation service

Yes, MvvmLight introduced the NavigationService in their last version but they did’t offer any implementation regarding Wpf (you can use the Implemented NavigationService in WP, Metroapps, ..) but unfortunately not Wpf, you need to implement that by your self,
here how i am currently doing it (credit)

first create you navigation interface that Implements the MvvmLight INavigationService

public interface IFrameNavigationService : INavigationService
{
    object Parameter { get; }  
}

the Parameter is used to pass objects between ViewModels, and the INavigationService is part of GalaSoft.MvvmLight.Views namespace

then implemente that interface like so

    class FrameNavigationService : IFrameNavigationService,INotifyPropertyChanged
    {
        #region Fields
        private readonly Dictionary<string, Uri> _pagesByKey;
        private readonly List<string> _historic;
        private string _currentPageKey;  
        #endregion
        #region Properties                                              
        public string CurrentPageKey
        {
            get
            {
                return _currentPageKey;
            }

            private  set
            {
                if (_currentPageKey == value)
                {
                    return;
                }

                _currentPageKey = value;
                OnPropertyChanged("CurrentPageKey");
            }
        }
        public object Parameter { get; private set; }
        #endregion
        #region Ctors and Methods
        public FrameNavigationService()
        {
            _pagesByKey = new Dictionary<string, Uri>();
            _historic = new List<string>();
        }                
        public void GoBack()
        {
            if (_historic.Count > 1)
            {
                _historic.RemoveAt(_historic.Count - 1);
                NavigateTo(_historic.Last(), null);
            }
        }
        public void NavigateTo(string pageKey)
        {
            NavigateTo(pageKey, null);
        }

        public virtual void NavigateTo(string pageKey, object parameter)
        {
            lock (_pagesByKey)
            {
                if (!_pagesByKey.ContainsKey(pageKey))
                {
                    throw new ArgumentException(string.Format("No such page: {0} ", pageKey), "pageKey");
                }

                var frame = GetDescendantFromName(Application.Current.MainWindow, "MainFrame") as Frame;

                if (frame != null)
                {
                    frame.Source = _pagesByKey[pageKey];
                }
                Parameter = parameter;
                _historic.Add(pageKey);
                CurrentPageKey = pageKey;
            }
        }

        public void Configure(string key, Uri pageType)
        {
            lock (_pagesByKey)
            {
                if (_pagesByKey.ContainsKey(key))
                {
                    _pagesByKey[key] = pageType;
                }
                else
                {
                    _pagesByKey.Add(key, pageType);
                }
            }
        }

        private static FrameworkElement GetDescendantFromName(DependencyObject parent, string name)
        {
            var count = VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(parent);

            if (count < 1)
            {
                return null;
            }

            for (var i = 0; i < count; i++)
            {
                var frameworkElement = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(parent, i) as FrameworkElement;
                if (frameworkElement != null)
                {
                    if (frameworkElement.Name == name)
                    {
                        return frameworkElement;
                    }

                    frameworkElement = GetDescendantFromName(frameworkElement, name);
                    if (frameworkElement != null)
                    {
                        return frameworkElement;
                    }
                }
            }
            return null;
        }

        public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

        protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged([CallerMemberName] string propertyName = null)
        {
            PropertyChangedEventHandler handler = PropertyChanged;
            if (handler != null) handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
        }
        #endregion
    }

the MainFrame in the above code is the x:Name of a simple Frame control Defined in Xaml used to navigate between pages (customize based on your needs)

Second: In the viewmodellocator, init your navigation service (SetupNavigation()), so you can use it in your viewmodels:

static ViewModelLocator()
{
     ServiceLocator.SetLocatorProvider(() => SimpleIoc.Default);

     SetupNavigation();

     SimpleIoc.Default.Register<MainViewModel>();
     SimpleIoc.Default.Register<LoginViewModel>();
     SimpleIoc.Default.Register<NoteViewModel>();            
 }
 private static void SetupNavigation()
 {
     var navigationService = new FrameNavigationService();
     navigationService.Configure("LoginView", new Uri("../Views/LoginView.xaml",UriKind.Relative));
     navigationService.Configure("Notes", new Uri("../Views/NotesView.xaml", UriKind.Relative));            

      SimpleIoc.Default.Register<IFrameNavigationService>(() => navigationService);
 }

Third: finaly, use the service, for example

 public LoginViewModel(IFrameNavigationService navigationService)
 {
      _navigationService = navigationService; 
 }
...
_navigationService.NavigateTo("Notes",data);
..

EDIT

An explicit sample can be found at this repo.