navigate to a Page

Question

Hi,

how can I navigate to a page. I have the following code in Metro Stayle developer:

public void navigate(object navigationParam, string viewClass)
{
   frame.Navigate(viewClass, navigationParam);
}

but it doesn't work in Consumer. I have tried this:

public void navigate(object navigationParam, string viewClass)
{
   frame.Navigate(viewClass.GetType(), navigationParam);
}

I have a error message (fatal error) with this code.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi Lowterm,

This change is mentioned in //Build to Windows 8 Consumer Preview

In Consumer Preview, you need to "Replace any usage of String instances with these navigation APIs with: C#: Type instances".

viewClass.GetType() in your code is the type of String. You can pass the type of the page you want to navigate to instead.

Best regards,

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Min Zhu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 2

Hi,

thanks for helping. I pass already the type of the page which I want to navigate to, but I should do this as a string.

Thanks

Answer 3

Instead of getting the type which returns a string, you should use typeof like this:

public void navigate(object navigationParam, string viewClass)
{
   frame.Navigate(typeof(viewClass), navigationParam);
}

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-Soroush

Answer 4

Hi,

this is not possible:

The type or Namespace "viewClass" could not be found.

Thanks

Answer 5

I copied "viewClass" from the code that you've posted, you need to change it to name of the page that you want to navigate to.

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-Soroush

Answer 6

Unfortunately I can not do this. I have several pages thet I want to navigate to. I pass the page names + namespaces as string to the navigate method like this:

public static string page1 = "MyProject.view.page1";
public static string page2 = "MyProject.view.page2";

region.navigate(null, page1);
region.navigate(null, page2);

Thanks

Answer 7

As "Min Zhu" mentioned, you need to use typed instance instead of string, so you can just change your code like this:

public static Type page1 = typeof(MyProject.view.page1);
public static Type page2 = typeof(MyProject.view.page2);

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-Soroush

Answer 8

Hi Lowterm,

Based on my understanding, I think what the Whitepaper suggests is to also change these page1, page2 to Type.

public static Type page1 = typeof(MyProject.view.page1);
public static Type page2 = typeof(MyProject.view.page2)";

region.navigate(null, page1);
region.navigate(null, page2);

Best regards,

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Min Zhu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 9

Hi,

Thank you very much. It works.

Thanks again