Hour 5. Understanding Page-Based Navigation

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Introducing the page navigation model

• Using the navigation service

• Working with page navigation events

• Passing data with the navigation context

Windows Phone 7 provides a nice and simple mechanism to help you organize the navigation for your Microsoft Silverlight applications. It provides a mechanism that uses a page metaphor where the user can select things he or she is interested in exploring or configuring and bring up a new page that can display more detailed information. In some cases, you can think of this as a master-detail pattern. For example, a list might be on the first page and when a user taps a list item, the application brings up a second page ...

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