WP7 navigation

[Adrian Hara]

Hey Rishi,

 

Just wanted to ask what’s the current status of nRoute-wp7 integration? And maybe a few very short bullet points on how/what to use for navigation/tombstoning, what doesn’t work (if anything) and what to look out for. Also you mentioned a sample for wp7 as far as I remember, but can’t see one on codeplex/nroute5. Am I looking in the wrong place?

 

Many thanks,

Adi

 

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Adrian Hara
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[Rishi Oberoi]

Well, the code to use WP7 navigation has been there for sometime, but I've just been pondering on it. Nonetheless, the main gist is this:

1. For the frame use ApplicationFrameContainer type (as opposed to PhoneApplicationFrame), it's a NavigationContainer

2. For mapping you need to map the file path as opposed to the type, so use something like:

[MapNavigationFile("Pages/Main/", "/MainPage.xaml")]

Note this only applies to the types you navigate at the top-frame level (i.e. in the ApplicationFrameContainer).

3. If you want to tombstone/untombstone the state then note ApplicationFrameContainer implements ISupportNavigationViewState

I'll post a detailed post on how to use, and about some potential issues later. Secondly, sorry there is no sample in the repository for #wp7 as of now.

Rishi

[Adrian Hara]

Cool, I used 1 & 2 already, was wondering if something changed there. And 3 is of course a welcome addition, as I used some custom hacks to make it happen J

 

Thnx for the info and looking forward to the later post,

Adi

 

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[Rishi Oberoi]

Well, if you've used 1 and 2 - the thing to note is under it all I'm just using wp7's native navigation, as there was no way I could escape it without loosing functionality or worse getting the app rejected. And so by wrapping wp7's navigation, I support nRoute's specific infrastructure by interjecting before and post navigation. 

Rishi