WebView

The WebView control is what is traditionally called a web browser control. It hosts HTML content, either from a URL or a string containing HTML, using the same rendering engine and JavaScript engine as Internet Explorer. Figure 14.26 shows the following Page filled with a WebView whose Source (of type System.Uri) is set to http://bing.com:

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<Page ...>   <WebView Name="webView" Source="http://bing.com"/> </Page>

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FIGURE 14.26 WebView with a URL Source (bing.com)

In this case, the result only applies to a PC, because navigating to bing.com on a phone automatically redirects to the local Cortana app.

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