Sometime we might want to navigate to a specific URL in LightSwitch application. That might be a web page URL or a direct URL to some file. If you are a Silverlight developer, you might know how to navigate to an URL but there are some trick in case of LightSwitch. If you are looking for a piece of code to learn the mechanism and to include in your project, then this post will guide you step-by-step. Browser Application If you are building a browser based LightSwitch application, you can just call the "HtmlPage.Window.Navigate(…)" method present under the "System.Windows.Browser" namespace. You will just need to add the dll reference of "System.Windows.Browser.dll" to make the piece of code to work. Make sure to surround the call with a Dispatcher, so that, it should not throw cross thread exception. To do this, you have to call the "Microsoft.LightSwitch.Threading.Dispatchers.Main.BeginInvoke(…)" method as demonstrated below: ...


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