Page Navigation

The navigation system in Windows Phone XAML apps is based on the Silverlight for the browser navigation model. The navigation class model looks a little different in the phone SDK however. Rather than Silverlight Frame and Page controls, Windows Phone apps use the subclasses PhoneApplicationFrame and the PhoneApplicationPage (see Figure 3.4).

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FIGURE 3.4 The PhoneApplicationFrame and PhoneApplicationPage classes are derived from the Frame and Page classes, respectively.

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Frame and Page must not be used directly in your app. They are prohibited because of underlying differences in the way the run-time environment interacts ...

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