使用WPF和MVVM实现大型设置对话框的方法

I am building an extensible WPF + MVVM application that will possibly have a significant number of user settings (from both core of the application and plugins). From my previous experience I can tell that managing options dialogs is pain when the application grows. Are there any best practices or design patterns that I could follow? How other applications like Visual Studio implement options dialogs with large number of categories and settings? Are these dialogs generated at runtime?I am building an extensible WPF + MVVM applicat