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TomCB
TomCB

Reputation: 4063

Navigate to an instance of a page

In my project I got a page NotePage.xaml it has a textbox named TextBoxTitle and a textbox named TextBoxTheNote.

In the code-behind of another page, I make an instance of this page and fill in both textboxes. What I can't seem to figure out is: how do I navigate to that instance?

I don't have any kind of uri or anything.

Any thoughts?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 63

Answers (1)

DotNetRussell
DotNetRussell

Reputation: 9857

With windows phone you don't create an instance of a page and navigate to it. You just navigate to the page you need and pass in the values through a series of different methods.

First navigations

NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri("YourXamlPageName.Xaml", UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute));

Now that we have you navigating here comes the fun part.

Deciding how you want to pass your data.

There are a number of ways.

First you can embed it in the URI

NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri("YourXamlPageName.Xaml?pageTitle=Whatever", UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute));

Then retrieve it in the navigated to of the other page

You can also serialize your data and retrive it on the other side.

You can use the EZ_Iso.dll for this. Very simple and fast. Great for complex objects http://anthonyrussell.info/postpage.php?name=2

Finally another method of passing data is through the Phone Application Service dictionary Outlined here in this blog post

http://anthonyrussell.info/postpage.php?name=10

Which ever way you choose just make sure to be consistent so it keeps your code clean.

Good luck!

Upvotes: 1

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