TOC and figure side by side in a slide

I want to put a figure and the TOC side by side in one slide where it would look like

TOC Figure

I have tried to include them each in a minipage respectively and then put them both in a figure environment. But the result does not look good, for the TOC is formatted as a paragraph, instead of an itemize lo开发者_JS百科ok. So, does anybody have a better solution? Thanks in advance.

PS

I use beamer for creating slides.

Have you tried the following:

\frame{
  \begin{columns}
    \column{.5\textwidth}
    \tableofcontents

    \column{.5\textwidth}
    \begin{figure}[h]
      \centering
      HERE-FIGURE
      \caption{Testfigure}
      \label{fig:a}
    \end{figure}

  \end{columns}
}

That worked just fine for me.