How to navigate between pages in an application ?

Navigation in an application can be done in a pre-determined linear sequence, a user driven path through hierarchy or a dynamically generated path.

Navigation can be performed using the following methods:

• Using Navigate method

Navigate method in the Navigation service can be used to navigate to a page in the application.

[C#]

       //Navigate using URI.
this.NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri('mypage.xaml', UriKind.Relative));

      //Navigate to an instance of a page.
          mypage newpage = new mypage();
   this.NavigationService.Navigate(newpage);

• Using Hyperlinks

“NavigateUri” property of Hyperlink markup extension can be used to open a page using hyperlink.

[XAML]

              <TextBlock>
      	<Hyperlink NavigateUri='mypage.xaml'>New Page</Hyperlink>
</TextBlock>

• Using the journal

Both navigation containers have a journal that records navigation history like a web browser. The journal maintains two stacks for ’Back’ and ’Forward’ stacks to record navigation.