Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Navigating to a Web Page Using the WebBrowserTask

The web browser task is used to launch the built-in Web Browser app and optionally navigates the browser to a specified URL:

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Uri uri = new Uri("http://msdn.microsoft.com", UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute);WebBrowserTask task = new WebBrowserTask { Uri = uri };task.Show();

If the Uri results in a 404 HTTP standard response code (Not Found), no exception is raised; instead the Windows Phone Search application is launched.

Sample Overview

Example code for the WebBrowserTask can be found in the LaunchWebBrowserViewModel in the downloadable sample code.

The LaunchWebBrowserView page contains a TextBox in which the user can enter a URL and a Launch Web Browser Button (see ...