/// <summary>
/// Navigates to a page control.
/// </summary>
public void NavigateToPageControlByArguments(string arguments)
{
IPageControl pageControl = null;
object parameter = arguments;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(arguments))
{
pageControl = new FavoritesPageControl();
}
else
{
PageInitializationParameters parameters;
if (PageInitializationParameters.TryCreate(arguments, out parameters))
{
string pageControlName = parameters.GetParameter <string>("pageControl");
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(pageControlName))
{
// Make sure the type is a valid page control:
Type pageControlType = Type.GetType(pageControlName, false);
if (pageControlType != null)
{
pageControl = Activator.CreateInstance(pageControlType) as IPageControl;
parameter = parameters;
}
}
}
}
// Important: to make sure we don't time out opening OBA on ARM devices, load the page control when we idle.
var ignored = this.Dispatcher.RunIdleAsync(async() =>
{
await NavigationController.Instance.NavigateToPageControlAsync(pageControl, parameter);
});
}
/// <summary>
/// Navigates to a page control by parsing an argument string. If the argument string is null or empty,
/// then we default to the favorites page. If the string begins with "?" then we try and parse it as a
/// deep link. If the string is anything else then we assume it's a search.
/// </summary>
public void NavigateToPageControlByArguments(string arguments)
{
IPageControl pageControl = null;
object parameter = arguments;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(arguments))
{
pageControl = new FavoritesPageControl();
}
else
{
PageInitializationParameters parameters;
if (PageInitializationParameters.TryCreate(arguments, out parameters))
{
string pageControlName = parameters.GetParameter <string>("pageControl");
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(pageControlName))
{
// Make sure the type is a valid page control:
Type pageControlType = Type.GetType(pageControlName, false);
if (pageControlType != null)
{
pageControl = Activator.CreateInstance(pageControlType) as IPageControl;
parameter = parameters;
}
}
}
// We have a query string, but it's not structured in a way we expect, so let's assume it's a search query:
if (pageControl == null)
{
pageControl = new SearchResultsPageControl();
}
}
// Important: to make sure we don't time out opening OBA on ARM devices, load the page control when we idle.
var ignored = this.Dispatcher.RunIdleAsync(async cb =>
{
await NavigationController.Instance.NavigateToPageControlAsync(pageControl, parameter);
await this.TryRegisterBackgroundTask();
});
}
