Navigating Between Views

To load and display a view in a Frame control, you need to navigate to it. Navigation operations can be initiated either by code; by a control, such as the HyperlinkButton control; by property bindings, or from the browser via the user clicking the Back and Forward buttons or changing the URI in the address bar. How you invoke a navigation operation depends on from where you are attempting to initiate the navigation. In this section we'll take a look at the various ways that you can initiate a navigation operation in your application, but let's first look at how you specify a view to load and display using a URI.

Using View URIs

In much the same way that a URL can be used to specify the location of a web page to retrieve ...

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