Universal Windows® Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed

Navigation

Although you can navigate the WebView by setting its Source property, it exposes four different navigation methods:

→ Navigate—Accepts a Uri and acts just like setting the Source property

→ NavigateToString—Navigates to in-memory static HTML content passed as a string

→ NavigateWithHttpRequestMessage—Enables you to specify the target as an HttpRequestMessage object covered in Chapter 19. This is useful for performing an HTTP POST instead of a GET, or providing custom HTTP headers.

→ NavigateToLocalStreamUri—A more powerful version of NavigateToString. Use this to navigate to local content that needs to reference other local files (such as images, CSS files, or scripts). You need to use a special URI with an ms-local-stream scheme, ...